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Roadway Toll Collection Support

'Roadway Toll Collection Support' provides toll plazas the capability to identify properly equipped vehicles, collect electronic tolls, and provide a positive indication to the driver that a toll was collected. Violators are identified and images are collected. Toll transactions are stored and reported to the Payment Administration Center.

1. 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.
2. 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.
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 calculate the toll due based on the vehicle characteristics (vehicle size, weight, axle count, etc.) and stored toll prices.
5. The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support toll payment transactions.
6. The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of toll violators to a center.
7. The field element shall control roadside displays indicating success or failure of the toll transaction to the driver.