Physical Object: Payment Administration Center

PAC Payment Administration

Overview

'PAC Payment Administration' provides administration and management of payments associated with electronic toll collection, parking payments, and other e-payments. It provides the back office functions that support enrollment, pricing, reduced fare eligibility, payment reconciliation with financial institutions, and violation notification to enforcement agencies. It also supports dynamic pricing to support demand management, allow/block-list management and token validation.

This functional object is included in the "Payment Administration Center" physical object.

This functional object is included in the following service packages:

This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:

Requirements

# Requirement
01 The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
02 The center shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.
03 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.
04 The center shall register vehicles for road or parking use payment, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.
05 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.
06 The center shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.
07 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.
08 The center shall calculate traffic flow based on timestamped toll transactions for vehicle travel between successive toll plazas and send to other agencies.
09 The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Payment Administrator.
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.
12 The center shall register users for an electronic payment system, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.
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.
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.
20 The center shall report enforcement agency of detected HOV or HOT lane entry violations including vehicle information and documents the lane parameter that was violated.
21 The center shall provide toll pricing information to other transportation centers.
22 The center shall exchange data with emergency centers to coordinate the modification of tolls in specific circumstances.
23 The center shall collect customer usage and billing information from the electric utility.
24 The center shall calculate the cost of a complete trip according to a trip plan, accommodating multiple modes if the trip plan uses more than one mode.
25 The center shall be able to authenticate and charge transactions with financial institutions.
26 The center shall be able to charge trips to managed accounts.
27 The center shall provide a bank card / fare pair to a financial processor for conditional approval of fare payment.
28 The center shall approve charges based on a pre-existing white/black list.
29 The Payment Processor needs to collect and aggregate charges over a time period.
30 The Payment Processor needs to provide process charges with financial institutions as a batch process.
31 The Payment Processor needs to learn when a card has been lost.
32 The Payment Processor needs to learn when a card has been used fraudulently.
33 The center shall access service metrics for all modes of transport for which they bill. Relevant metrics may include service cost, availability, allowed payments, fare caps and discounts.
34 The center shall provide fare payment to the transport provider when payment for travel on the transport provider vehicles is made with a regional payment system.
35 The center shall discount a traveler's rate for different segments of a multimodal trip based on the eligibility of the traveler.

Information Flows

Source Flow Destination
DMV registration Payment Administration Center
Electric Charging Management Center account updates Payment Administration Center
Electric Charging Management Center service registry Payment Administration Center
Electric Charging Station authorization request Payment Administration Center
Electric Utility usage and billing info Payment Administration Center
Eligibility Certification Management System traveler eligibility Payment Administration Center
Emergency Management Center toll service change request Payment Administration Center
Financial Center payment methods financial institution Payment Administration Center
Financial Center settlement Payment Administration Center
Fleet and Freight Management Center toll data request Payment Administration Center
ITS Roadway Payment Equipment authorization request Payment Administration Center
ITS Roadway Payment Equipment payment transactions Payment Administration Center
Light Vehicle OBE actuate secure payment Payment Administration Center
Light Vehicle OBE user account setup Payment Administration Center
Other Payment Administration Centers payment coordination Payment Administration Center
Other Payment Administration Centers toll coordination Payment Administration Center
Other Payment Administration Centers user account coordination Payment Administration Center
Parking Area Equipment authorization request Payment Administration Center
Parking Management Center account updates Payment Administration Center
Parking Management Center service registry Payment Administration Center
Payment Administration Center license request DMV
Payment Administration Center payment methods Electric Charging Management Center
Payment Administration Center authorization response Electric Charging Station
Payment Administration Center traveler eligibility request Eligibility Certification Management System
Payment Administration Center toll service change response Emergency Management Center
Payment Administration Center payment violation notification Enforcement Center
Payment Administration Center payment request Financial Center
Payment Administration Center toll data Fleet and Freight Management Center
Payment Administration Center authorization response ITS Roadway Payment Equipment
Payment Administration Center payment instructions ITS Roadway Payment Equipment
Payment Administration Center registered secureIDs Light Vehicle OBE
Payment Administration Center user account reports Light Vehicle OBE
Payment Administration Center payment coordination Other Payment Administration Centers
Payment Administration Center toll coordination Other Payment Administration Centers
Payment Administration Center user account coordination Other Payment Administration Centers
Payment Administration Center authorization response Parking Area Equipment
Payment Administration Center payment methods Parking Management Center
Payment Administration Center payment information presentation Payment Administrator
Payment Administration Center registered secureIDs Personal Information Device
Payment Administration Center traveler payment request Personal Information Device
Payment Administration Center user account reports Personal Information Device
Payment Administration Center payment methods Shared Use Transportation Center
Payment Administration Center trip access coordination Shared Use Transportation Center
Payment Administration Center toll data Traffic Management Center
Payment Administration Center toll probe data Traffic Management Center
Payment Administration Center payment methods Transit Management Center
Payment Administration Center reconciliation response Transit Management Center
Payment Administration Center trip access coordination Transit Management Center
Payment Administration Center authorization response Transit Vehicle OBE
Payment Administration Center reconciliation response Transportation Information Center
Payment Administration Center toll data Transportation Information Center
Payment Administration Center toll probe data Transportation Information Center
Payment Administration Center trip access coordination Transportation Information Center
Payment Administration Center authorization response Traveler Support Equipment
Payment Administration Center registered secureIDs Traveler Support Equipment
Payment Administration Center traveler payment request Traveler Support Equipment
Payment Administration Center user account reports Traveler Support Equipment
Payment Administrator payment administration requests Payment Administration Center
Personal Information Device actuate secure payment Payment Administration Center
Personal Information Device payment device token information Payment Administration Center
Personal Information Device traveler payment information Payment Administration Center
Personal Information Device user account setup Payment Administration Center
Shared Use Transportation Center account updates Payment Administration Center
Shared Use Transportation Center trip access coordination Payment Administration Center
Traffic Management Center transportation operational strategies Payment Administration Center
Transit Management Center account updates Payment Administration Center
Transit Management Center service registry Payment Administration Center
Transit Management Center smart card reconciliation Payment Administration Center
Transit Management Center trip access coordination Payment Administration Center
Transit Vehicle OBE authorization request Payment Administration Center
Transportation Information Center account updates Payment Administration Center
Transportation Information Center smart card reconciliation Payment Administration Center
Transportation Information Center toll data request Payment Administration Center
Transportation Information Center trip access coordination Payment Administration Center
Traveler Support Equipment actuate secure payment Payment Administration Center
Traveler Support Equipment authorization request Payment Administration Center
Traveler Support Equipment user account setup Payment Administration Center

Standards

The following table lists the standards associated with the functional object itself (as opposed to standards associated with an interface).

Name Title
NEMA TS 8 Cyber and Physical Security Cyber and Physical Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems