PAC Payment Administration Functional Object

Description

'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.

Included In

Houston METRO Toll Payment Center
TxDOT Houston Toll Payment Center
HCTRA Toll Payment Center
Local Agencies Toll Payment Center

Functional Requirements

IDRequirementUser Defined
1The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.False
2The center shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.False
3The 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.False
4The center shall register vehicles for road or parking use payment, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.False
5For 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.False
6The center shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.False
7The 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.False
8The center shall calculate traffic flow based on timestamped toll transactions for vehicle travel between successive toll plazas and send to other agencies.False
9The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Payment Administrator.False
10The center shall exchange data with other payment administration agencies to coordinate toll transactions and pricing.False
11The center shall report payment violations including vehicle information and vehicle image to the designated Enforcement Agency.False
12The center shall register users for an electronic payment system, establishing accounts that identify owner billing information and preferences.False
13The 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.False
14This center shall maintain and publish the prices for the electronic payment system.False
15The center shall provide the HOT pricing information, including variable pricing based on calendar, time of day, vehicle type and passenger occupancy.False
16The center shall receive traveler payment information and compute the cost of using the portion of the transportation system.False
17The center shall process and clear payments from travelers and vehicle owners.False
18The center shall coordinate with payment administration centers that serve as a clearing house for a regional payment system in order to perform payment reconciliation.False
19The center shall exchange data with other payment administration centers in order to coordinate electronic payments systems use and pricing.False
20The center shall report enforcement agency of detected HOV or HOT lane entry violations including vehicle information and documents the lane parameter that was violated.False
21The center shall provide toll pricing information to other transportation centers.False
22The center shall exchange data with emergency centers to coordinate the modification of tolls in specific circumstances.False
23The center shall collect customer usage and billing information from the electric utility.False
24The 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.False
25The center shall be able to authenticate and charge transactions with financial institutions.False
26The center shall be able to charge trips to managed accounts.False
27The center shall provide a bank card / fare pair to a financial processor for conditional approval of fare payment.False
28The center shall approve charges based on a pre–existing white/black list.False
29The Payment Processor needs to collect and aggregate charges over a time period.False
30The Payment Processor needs to provide process charges with financial institutions as a batch process.False
31The Payment Processor needs to learn when a card has been lost.False
32The Payment Processor needs to learn when a card has been used fraudulently.False
33The 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.False
34The 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.False
35The center shall discount a traveler's rate for different segments of a multimodal trip based on the eligibility of the traveler.False