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George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza

Status:

Existing

Definition:

The George P. Coleman Bridge is a double swing span bridge that connects Route 17 between Gloucester Point and historic Yorktown on the Virginia Peninsula.

Stakeholder:

VDOT ERO Region

Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza:

• George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT Hampton Roads TOC
• George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT Smart-Tag EZ-Pass Customer Service Center
• George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT VaTraffic

Architecture Flows
to/from the George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza:

George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT Hampton Roads TOC

• multimodal crossing status

George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT Smart-Tag EZ-Pass Customer Service Center

• alert notification


• toll coordination


• toll service change request


• toll transactions

George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza VDOT VaTraffic

• transportation system status

VDOT Smart-Tag EZ-Pass Customer Service CenterGeorge P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza

• alert status


• toll advisories


• toll coordination


• toll instructions


• toll probe data


• toll service change response

VDOT VaTrafficGeorge P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza

• incident information


• incident response status


• transportation system status

National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza:

• Emergency Management Subsystem
• Multimodal Crossings Terminator
• Toll Administration Subsystem
• Toll Collection Subsystem
• Traffic Management Subsystem

National ITS Architecture Services
associated with George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza:

• ATMS20 - Drawbridge Management - VDOT ERO Region -- (Graphic)

National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with George P. Coleman Bridge Toll Plaza:

Toll Administration

1. The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
2. For electronic toll payments requiring financial payment, the center shall process the financial information from toll plazas and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
3. The center shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.
4. The center shall manage the details of toll payment violations based on vehicle information from the toll plaza, registration information from the Department of Motor Vehicles, invalid payment information from a Financial Institution, and previous violation information stored locally, and report such violations to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
5. The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Toll Administrator.
6. The center shall support requests for advanced toll payment and provide this information to its toll plazas.
7. The center shall support wide-area alerts from emergency centers by passing on the information to its toll plazas and the Toll Administrator.
8. The center shall support toll transactions by commercial fleet operators.

Toll Plaza Toll Collection

1. The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support toll payment transactions.
2. The field element shall calculate the toll due based on the vehicle characteristics (vehicle size, weight, axle count, etc.) and stored toll prices.
3. The field element shall update the stored value after debiting the toll amount and send a record of the transaction to a center.
4. The field element shall read the credit identity from the passing vehicle and send that identity and the amount to be debited to a center.
5. The field element shall support advanced toll payment by checking the vehicle's toll information against a stored list of advanced payments, and debiting the toll from the list in the case of a match.
6. The field element shall control roadside displays indicating success or failure of the toll transaction to the driver.
7. The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of toll violators to a center.
8. The field element shall respond to changes in tolls from the Toll Operator.