LeeWays Pay-by-Plate Program

Project Description: LeeWays Pay–by–Plate Program. Install instrumentation and interconnectivity protocols.

Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• Financial Institutions
• Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• Lee County DOT

Project Service Packages:

• TM10: Electronic Toll Collection (LeeWay Toll Collection System)
• TM01: Infrastructure-Based Traffic Surveillance (Lee County LeeWays Pay-by-Plate)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
license request	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Florida DMV Licensing and Registration System	Planned
payment instructions	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Lee County Toll Collection System	Planned
payment request	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Financial Institutions	Planned
payment transactions	Lee County Toll Collection System	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Planned
registration	Florida DMV Licensing and Registration System	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Planned
settlement	Financial Institutions	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Planned
traffic images	Lee County Toll Collection System	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Planned
video surveillance control	LeeWay Toll System Administration	Lee County Toll Collection System	Planned

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• Lee County Toll Collection System - Roadway Basic Surveillance
• 2: The field element shall collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for further analysis and distribution.


• Lee County Toll Collection System - Roadway Toll Collection Support
• 1: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support toll payment transactions.
• 2: The field element shall calculate the toll due based on the vehicle characteristics (vehicle size, weight, axle count, etc.) and stored toll prices.
• 8: The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of toll violators to a center.


• LeeWay Toll System Administration - PAC Payment Administration
• 1: The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
• 10: The center shall exchange data with other payment administration agencies to coordinate toll transactions and pricing.
• 13: The center shall provide secure user account management for the electronic payment system, providing user access to rules and policies, current billing status, invoices, payments, and mechanisms for review and challenge of the collected data.
• 14: This center shall maintain and publish the prices for the electronic payment system.
• 16: The center shall receive traveler payment information and compute the cost of using the portion of the transportation system.
• 17: The center shall process and clear payments from travelers and vehicle owners.
• 2: The center shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.
• 3: The center shall provide secure user account management, providing user access to rules and policies, current billing status, invoices, payments, and mechanisms for review and challenge of the collected data.
• 4: The center shall register vehicles for road or parking use payment, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.
• 5: For electronic toll payments requiring financial payment, the center shall process the financial information from ITS roadway payment equipment and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
• 6: The center shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.
• 7: The center shall manage the details of toll payment violations based on vehicle information from the ITS roadway payment equipment, registration information from the Department of Motor Vehicles, invalid payment information from a Financial Institution, and previous violation information stored locally, and report such violations to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
• 9: The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Payment Administrator.


• LeeWay Toll System Administration - Roadway Toll Collection Support
• 1: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support toll payment transactions.
• 4: 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.
• 8: The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of toll violators to a center.

Standards:

• (None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: NTCIP Video Switches - SNMPv3/TLS

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Financial Institutions
• Support financial transactions for toll collection.


• Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• Support license tag registration information collection.


• Lee County DOT
• Operate toll collection systems in conjunction with LeeWay, including both open road and tollbooth systems such as tag coordination with the E-Pass, LeeWay, and SunPass).

Last Updated 5/25/2023