Development and Testing of Electronic Payment Services National Interoperability Specification for Next Generation ETC Services
This project entails developing a vehicle-to-roadside electronic payment services national interoperability specification (EPSNIS) and confirming that the specification and use thereof supports a legacy environment (clearing transactions from toll roads and merchants through a toll authority) as well as one where the payment media and customer accounts are managed by non-agency financial services companies. The goal is, through standardizing the application, to prepare for the future and provide a path to national interoperability for EPS. A Reference Implementation Test will be conducted to validate the EPSNIS standard and the model’s architecture. Partners include the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, the New York State Bridge Authority, and the OmniAir Consortium.

Procurement Agency: New Jersey DOT/Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Project Contact: Bill Stoeckert, I-95 Corridor Coalition

The EPSNIS incorporates the key requirements reflecting the community’s current and long term needs and demands of next-generation payment services. The objectives of this project are:

• To identify and standardize the crucial interfaces between the major system components or devices that are linked; • To adopt an open-architecture and standards-based solution for EPS;
• To create greater contestability in the procurement of back-office equipment and systems;
• To create the ability to select “best of breed” services;
• To increase the capacity to harmonize interfaces between previously diverse multiple parties;
• To ease management of the business relationships of those parties;
• To operate predictably and similarly for all payment modes and services such as parking, ecommerce, food, fuel and traditional tolling;
• To create a business environment that allows EPS providers to change business relationships quickly and without the costs associated with being locked into proprietary technologies.

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This project consists of a series of tasks conducted by the partners that can be divided into four general phases: outreach, functional requirements definition, specification development, and reference implementation testing.

Outreach: the development of the EPSNIS requires experienced input from both inside the toll industry, and peripheral to and outside of it due to the national application of the EPSNIS and the extension of the EPS paradigm outside of the familiar boundaries.

Requirements: after identifying the pertinent stakeholders, the next set of tasks encompass collaboration with them on defining the functional requirements of an EPSNIS, refining them and then confirming them as the building block for the specification.

The Specification: this is an extensive process of specification development that begins by creating a preliminary draft specification for review.

Testing: in this phase, at the test host facility, the partners will design, test and document a Reference Implementation Test where both the technology and the payment architectures will be operated side-by-side to validate the draft EPSNIS and verify performance.

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