ITPS Security Privacy Breaches; Extent of the Problem and a Simulated Case Study

摘要

This research investigates the security and privacy breaches of electronic IntegratedTransportation Payment Systems, ITPS, via Radio-Frequency Identification, RFID, tags and smart cards,their frequency of occurrence and type. This National Science Foundation, NSF, funded study has createda website that collects news events reporting breaches worldwide and automatically categorizes them byvarious characteristics, including five defined categories for security types of breaches and five categoriesof privacy breaches. A preliminary statistical analysis reports the existing extent of the problem inelectronic ITPS.A second objective requires investigation of the impact on traffic operations due to the adoptionof security protection measures or software algorithms. One case study, a toll collection facility on theMassachusetts Turnpike is simulated in PTV Vision VISSIM traffic software for various transactiontimes. This ITPS is a ticketing tolling payment system located on the I-90 east-west Turnpike inMassachusetts, USA. Simulations were performed with and without added times at the point of thepayment transaction. Initial results indicate that the impact on operations is negligible for securitymeasures that add milliseconds of transaction time. However, for added transaction times in a range ofseconds, the impact is more significant.