TO MEET TOMORROW'S DEMANDS FOR MULTI-LANE FREE FLOW TOLLING-INCLUDING VALUE ADDED SERVICES - ISO CALM ACTIVE BI-DIRECTIONAL HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATION - WILL BE THE KEY

摘要

This paper gives an overview about requirements of an MLFF (Multilane Free Flow) - ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) System of tomorrow. An innovative Solution for it will be presented.The Multi Lane Free Flow Systems offers the advantages of contemporary and automatic toll collection and often combine the multi-application ability of smart cards and the speed ofnonstop transactions.Extended MLFF systems are also capable of surveying the tolling process by means of Automatic Vehicle Enforcement (abbr. AVE) modules. An AVE module consists of incident capture camera systems and classification systems. Each passing vehicle is detected and classified by sensors and camera systems take snapshots of the vehicle. Finally, the result of the transaction has to be verified by the enforcement result, whether the transaction was correct or not. Inferred matching results can be used for several purposes, such as fraud prosecution, statistic generation or reporting. Vehicle detection and further classification are done by means of sensors that permanently scan the street surface and in consequence detect passing vehicles contact-free by using optical methods.