Overview
ISO/TR 21190:2018 is a technical report that investigates electronic fee collection (EFC) charging policies and the charging technologies needed for future standardization. The report classifies conventional and new charging policies, maps their functional requirements to existing and emerging technologies, conducts a gap analysis, and recommends where new standards or amendments to existing EFC standards may be required. The document also includes informative annexes with technology applications, tariff examples, communications comparisons, and sample legislation.
Key topics and technical requirements
- Charging policies
- Conventional policies (e.g., funding for road construction and maintenance, congestion reduction, internalizing external costs)
- New and integrated policies (e.g., low-cost device solutions, alternatives to fuel taxes, route/lane provisioning, fair-rate mechanisms)
- EFC functional requirements
- Core EFC functions: charging, enforcement, information provision, payment
- Functional models and mappings between policy requirements and EFC functions
- Technologies for EFC
- Existing technologies: DSRC, autonomous positioning systems (GNSS/CN), ANPR
- Emerging technologies: probe data, odometer-based methods, passive RFID, WAVE, WIM, and other candidate technologies
- Consideration of mutual applicability of technologies to both conventional and new charging policies
- Gap analysis and recommendations
- Evaluation criteria for technology suitability
- Recommendations for developing emerging standards or amending current EFC standards based on identified gaps
- Supporting material
- Annexes covering technology application to EFC systems, tariff examples, communications comparison, and legislative examples
Practical applications
- Designing and specifying interoperable tolling and road charging systems
- Selecting appropriate technologies (GNSS, DSRC, ANPR, RFID, odometer, WAVE, WIM) for distance-, time-, weight- or location-based charging
- Developing enforcement, payment and information-provision workflows for ITS deployments
- Performing technical gap analyses to inform standard development or procurement decisions
- Informing policymakers on viable charging policy-technology pairings (e.g., alternatives to fuel tax, congestion charging)
Who should use this standard
- Road and transport authorities planning toll or road-pricing schemes
- Toll operators and ITS system integrators
- Technology vendors (GNSS, RFID, ANPR, WAVE, WIM suppliers)
- Standards developers and technical committees
- Policy makers and researchers assessing charging policy impacts and technology readiness
Related standards and context
- Prepared in accordance with ISO/IEC Directives; it supports harmonization with existing EFC-related standards and informs potential amendments or new standards where gaps are identified. The report is intended to guide future ISO standardization work in electronic fee collection and intelligent transport systems (ITS).
