7.2.1.1: Read Parking Lot Vehicle Payment Data

This process shall be responsible for requesting the data from the parking lot payment device being carried on-board the vehicle and used as the traveler card / payment device being read. If there is no vehicle payment device or the data it contains cannot be properly read, the process shall send a message for the vehicle to pull in for output by another process, and send a request to other processes to obtain an image of the vehicle. If there is no entry time data on the vehicle payment device, then the process shall re-write this data plus the number of the entry lane onto the vehicle payment device, so that it can be used as the mechanism for charging for the use of the parking lot. If the entry time is present, the process shall combine it with the vehicle characteristics, e.g., size, type, etc. to form the data upon which the parking lot payment transaction can be based, and send it to another process. The process shall also take video images of vehicles for use in parking payment violation determination.

This process is associated with the Parking Area Equipment physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

This process is associated with the following data flows: