RFID BASED HIGHWAY TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION:

• It is seen that due to heavy traffic on highways it consumes more time to give money.
• It is seen that these are conventional tollbooth on highways to collect the toll and give receipt to the person driving the vehicle.
• Due to heavy traffic on highways more time is taken to collect the toll and vehicle consume more fuel when they are in queue. It also increases the travel time of vehicles.
• If tollbooth is between two cities where there are more numbers of people do up-down by car. That’s why they have to pat money and take receipt at tollbooth it consumes more time.
•  IF tollbooth is between two cities there are many cars and car queues there.
• If we implement more toll collection booth on toll road it required more working staff and more maintenance cost.
• They require vehicles to stop or slow down; manual toll collection wastes time and raises vehicle operating costs.

As show in snap Working staff gives receipt and change to motorist.

• As due to heavy traffic at tollbooth and queues and wait for their turn it consumes more fuel too.

In second snap there are queues at tollbooth

• Audit is complicated because of higher cash flow

• We cannot expand toll collection centre toll road

• This problem on conventional tollbooth can be solved by RFID based Highway Toll Collection system.

• RFID based Highway Toll Collection system allows vehicles to go through toll booths without halting and the toll amount gets deducted from the rechargeable account on record.
• There are various technologies being used world-wide like Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), Vehicle Identification System using number plates, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) decided up on implementing RFID system due to its beneficial features which we will learn about in this post.

• Passive Tags: These are also known as the transponders and are used for toll collection by the system. These tags can be easily installed by just sticking it on the windscreen of the vehicle; it also has high reliability of identification.

• Smart Card: It uses contactless stored-value Smart Cards in a pre-paid toll collection system. The motorist flashes the card on the reader installed at the toll booth. The corresponding toll fee is automatically deducted from the card. The smart card can be used for multiple trips until the stored value is exhausted.

• Smart cards can be purchased with or recharged at the operator's designed outlets. As the motorist approaches the toll booth, the card is simply flashed at the reading area of the reader When it sensed by the reader, signal light turns on. Green for go and the barrier opens automatically. Red for insufficient, zero balance or defective card and the barrier remains closed. The LCD display on the reader will show the appropriate messages.

• This is basic block diagram of RFID based Highway Toll Collection system.

RFID based Highway Toll Collection system

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