FDOT District 7 Gateway Expressway Project

Project Description: The Gateway Expressway project is made up of two components : two new 4–lane elevated tolled (static) roadways that will provide express connections from US 19 to I–275 and from the Bayside Bridge to I–275 and the widening of I–275 to add express (dynamic) tolled lanes
(one lane in each direction) from south of Gandy Boulevard to 4th Street N. Includes Open Road Tolling and ITS devices.


Project Status: Planned

Project Stakeholders:

• FDOT District 7
• Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• Florida Highway Patrol
• Floridas Turnpike Enterprise
• State of Florida

Project Service Packages:

• TM01: Infrastructure-Based Traffic Surveillance (FDOT District 7)
• TM10: Electronic Toll Collection (FDOT District 7 Gateway Expressway)

Project Information Flows:

Information Flow	Source Element	Destination Element	Status
license request	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	Florida DMV Licensing and Registration System	Planned
payment instructions	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Planned
payment instructions	FTE Regional Toll Office	Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Planned
payment request	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	Financial Institutions	Planned
payment transactions	Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	Planned
payment transactions	Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	FTE Regional Toll Office	Planned
payment violation notification	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	FHP Regional Dispatch	Planned
payment violation notification	FTE Regional Toll Office	FHP Regional Dispatch	Planned
registration	Florida DMV Licensing and Registration System	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	Planned
roadway dynamic signage data	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	FDOT District 7 Field Equipment	Planned
roadway dynamic signage status	FDOT District 7 Field Equipment	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Planned
settlement	Financial Institutions	Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS	Planned
toll service change request	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	FTE Regional Toll Office	Planned
toll service change response	FTE Regional Toll Office	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Planned
traffic detector control	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	FDOT District 7 Field Equipment	Planned
traffic detector data	FDOT District 7 Field Equipment	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Planned
traffic images	FDOT District 7 Field Equipment	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	Planned
vehicle payment information	SunPass Tag	Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment	Planned
video surveillance control	FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center	FDOT District 7 Field Equipment	Planned

Project Functional Requirements (Element - Functional Object):

• Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment - Roadway Payment Support
• 1: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support road usage payment transactions.
• 3: The field element shall update the stored value after debiting the road use payment amount and send a record of the transaction to a center.
• 4: The road use payment field element shall read the credit identity from the passing vehicle and send that identity and the amount to be debited to a center.


• Express Lane Open Road Tolling Equipment - Roadway Toll Collection Support
• 1: The field element shall read data from passing vehicles to support toll payment transactions.
• 3: The field element shall update the stored value after debiting the toll amount and send a record of the transaction to a center.
• 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.
• 5: The field element shall support advanced toll payment by checking the vehicle's toll information against a stored list of advanced payments, and debiting the toll from the list in the case of a match.
• 7: The field element shall control roadside displays indicating success or failure of the toll transaction to the driver.
• 8: The field element shall control cameras, obtain images, and forward images of toll violators to a center.


• FDOT District 7 Field Equipment - Roadway Basic Surveillance
• 1: The field element shall collect, process, digitize, and send traffic sensor data (speed, volume, and occupancy) to the center for further analysis and storage, under center control.
• 2: The field element shall collect, process, and send traffic images to the center for further analysis and distribution.
• 3: The field element shall collect, digitize, and send multimodal crossing and high occupancy vehicle (HOV), and high occupancy toll (HOT) lane sensor data to the center for further analysis and storage.
• 4: The field element shall return sensor and CCTV system operational status to the controlling center.


• FDOT District 7 Field Equipment - Roadway Data Collection
• 2: The field element shall include the sensors and supporting roadside devices that sense, collect, and send traffic, road, and environmental conditions information to a center for archival.


• FDOT District 7 Field Equipment - Roadway Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The field element shall include dynamic message signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers, under center control; the DMS may be either those that display variable text messages, or those that have fixed format display(s) (e.g. vehicle restrictions, or lane open/close).


• FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center - TMC Basic Surveillance
• 1: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center.
• 2: The center shall monitor, analyze, and distribute traffic images from CCTV systems under remote control of the center.
• 3: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store multimodal crossing, high occupancy vehicle (HOV) and high occupancy toll (HOT) lane sensor data under remote control of the center.


• FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center - TMC Demand Management Coordination
• 1: The center shall collect and store toll pricing data from payment administration centers, including the price for each road segment to which a toll applies, with the time and date for when it applies.
• 5: The center shall send requests to payment administration centers to change pricing, modify restrictions, or modify operations of a toll road facility.


• FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center - TMC Traffic Information Dissemination
• 1: The center shall remotely control dynamic messages signs for dissemination of traffic and other information to drivers.


• FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center - TMC Traffic Management Decision Support
• 2: The center shall identify network imbalances and potential courses of action.
• 3: The center shall compare the impact of potential courses of action and make recommendations to the operator.


• FDOT District 7 Tampa Bay SunGuide Center - TMC Traffic Network Performance Evaluation
• 1: The center shall monitor, analyze, and store traffic sensor data (speed, volume, occupancy) collected from field elements under remote control of the center to support overall network performance evaluations.


• FHP Regional Dispatch - TMC Demand Management Coordination
• 1: The center shall collect and store toll pricing data from payment administration centers, including the price for each road segment to which a toll applies, with the time and date for when it applies.


• Florida Statewide Tolling CCSS - 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.
• 11: The center shall report payment violations including vehicle information and vehicle image to the designated Enforcement Agency.
• 14: This center shall maintain and publish the prices for the electronic payment system.
• 15: The center shall provide the HOT pricing information, including variable pricing based on calendar, time of day, vehicle type and passenger occupancy.
• 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.
• 18: The center shall coordinate with payment administration centers that serve as a clearing house for a regional payment system in order to perform payment reconciliation.
• 19: The center shall exchange data with other payment administration centers in order to coordinate electronic payments systems use and pricing.
• 2: The center shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.
• 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.
• 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.


• FTE Regional Toll Office - PAC Payment Administration
• 1: The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
• 11: The center shall report payment violations including vehicle information and vehicle image to the designated Enforcement Agency.
• 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.
• 9: The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Payment Administrator.


• SunPass Tag - Light Vehicle Basic Toll/Parking Payment
• 1: The vehicle shall respond to requests from toll collection equipment for credit identity, stored value card cash, etc.

Standards:

• (None-Data) - Guaranteed Secure Internet (ITS)
• (None-Data) - Secure Internet (ITS)
• US: NTCIP Message Sign - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Transportation Sensors - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: NTCIP Video Switches - SNMPv3/TLS
• US: WAVE Tolling - Local Unicast Wireless (1609.2)

Project Operational Concepts:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Floridas Turnpike Enterprise
• Coordinate with other toll agencies using a reciprocity network for the collection of electronic toll payments.
• Operate a customer service center to process toll transactions and handle violations processing.
• Operate toll collection equipment on FTE toll roads.
• Provide customer account information on a Web site.


• Florida Highway Patrol
• Receive toll payment violation notification from Floridas Turnpike Enterprise.


• FDOT District 7
• Collect and archive toll information from the SunPass customer service center.
• Control and coordinate highway traffic with managed lanes on FDOT freeways.
• Perform maintenance of ITS field equipment owned by the FDOT.
• Perform network surveillance for incident detection and verification on freeways, and send traffic/incident information and traffic images to county fire/EMS/sheriff agencies, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), Road Rangers Service Patrols and the county E
• Provide dynamic toll information based on real-time traffic information


• State of Florida
• Operate statewide tolling customer service center.


• Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• Provides driver license and vehicle registration and title in the state of Florida.