The I-95 Corridor includes, or is immediately adjacent to, the greatest concentration of Electronic Toll Collection facilities in the United States. While many of the facilities that will be ETC-equipped within the next several years will be interoperable (mainly the IAG facilities), several additional facilities in the corridor will not be capable of processing toll tags issued by other agencies. Now that ETC is available (or soon to be available) at a considerable majority of toll facilities – and virtually all toll facilities in the I-95 Corridor – it is time to focus greater effort on linking systems.
The overall goal of this two-part project is to analyze and assess the state of Electronic Payment Services (EPS) within the I-95 corridor. With member consensus, develop a compliant candidate architecture for the Corridor that encompasses all types of EPS activity (tags and readers, proximity cards, smart cards) and all modes of surface transportation (vehicular, commuter rail, interstate rail, etc.). Using this architecture, develop a deployment model for the Corridor and candidate operational tests to test the architecture and model.
The focus of this study will be on transportation-related EPS systems currently operating or planned for deployment in the near term. The study will inventory and evaluate highway toll authorities, major metropolitan transit authorities, Amtrak, a sampling of smaller transit systems (both public and private), and transit-related parking services. |