Toll Payment Collection Using No-Contract Tags
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current toll collection systems face inefficiencies in processing toll fees for vehicles without identification tags, particularly across different toll road operators lacking interoperability agreements, leading to higher costs and complexities in payment processing.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for toll fee collection using no-contract tags associated with prepaid accounts, enabling communication between toll road operators and users through messaging services to facilitate automatic payment processing, even across non-interoperable systems, by registering device and vehicle identifiers and utilizing a prepaid account for toll fee deduction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If image-based transactions are used to collect toll fees from vehicles without identification devices, then toll collection can be achieved for unregistered vehicles, but the processing cost and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering vehicle identifiers and linking them to user accounts before toll collection. When a vehicle is detected, the system already has the user's contact information and account details ready, enabling rapid notification and payment processing through messaging services, thus reducing the time loss associated with post-detection registration and payment setup.
2Reliability
If traditional toll collection systems are used without interoperability agreements between different toll road operators, then each operator can collect fees independently, but the system complexity and administrative costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal messaging-based payment platform that can handle toll collections from multiple different toll road operators through a common interface. The registration database stores vehicle identifiers and user contact information in a standardized format, allowing any operator to notify users of toll debts through SMS or MMS messages, thereby reducing administrative complexity while maintaining reliable fee collection across different operators without requiring complex interoperability agreements.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations include actions of receiving a first tag identifier based on a first vehicle using the toll road facility, and determining that the first tag identifier is provided in a registration database as indicating a no-contract tag, the registration database associating no-contract tags to respective device identifiers, and in response: determining a first device identifier associated with the first tag identifier from the first database, transmitting a first message to a first device associated with the first device identifier, the first message comprising a request for approval to collect a first toll fee, and receiving a second message from the first device, the second message indicating approval of the first toll fee, and in response initiating payment of the first toll fee from one of a prepaid account associated with the first tag identifier or a first service provider, the first service provider providing data transfer services for the first device.