Abstract
This paper establishes a new mobile electronic toll collection (m-ETC) by integrating mobile communication with radio frequency (RF) communication on microprocessor control with an e-commerce business model. A simple ETC system architecture and protocol for e-transactions from vehicles to toll stations is proposed to complete toll interaction on wireless environment. A software flow through Internet is developed to link from toll station roadside units (RSU) to car units. A car unit (CU) for vehicle, a pair of roadside units (RSU), and an e-Center are established. A data flow and an interaction protocol are created. The proposed m-ETC system can be applied to different toll/charge systems with appropriate hardware and software. Some simulation test results verify basic system performance on ETC applications. A new business model for the proposed m-ETC is organized and discussed with feasibility analysis in e-commerce demonstration.
Highlights
Mobile communication has become a livelihood technology to be widely adopted for added value applications
The communication means of radio frequency (RF) and Global System of Mobile communication (GSM) in hierarchical structure is linking to a transaction and authentication process in a server with software implementation
The proposed mobile electronic toll collection system is verified from hardware fabrication and implementation with simulation tests
Summary
Mobile communication has become a livelihood technology to be widely adopted for added value applications. Based on road side message exchange concept, the dedicated short range communication (DSRC) technology is developed to adopt radio frequency (RF) communication to broadcast road information to vehicle [20]. The combination of mobile communication with ETC can be a useful idea to toll center, road users, and system providers to become a new added value application [12]. In short distance and short message interaction between two or more devices, wireless communication can be adopted Another problem might be considered on the number of users. The adoption of mobile communication can be a feasible choice in the future development that benefits the infrastructure for added value services. This paper proposes a feasible solution of ETC using mobile communication infrastructure to achieve toll collection as part of m-commerce. The communication means of RF and GSM in hierarchical structure is linking to a transaction and authentication process in a server with software implementation
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