European Directive on Interoperability for Electronic Fee Collection

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European Directive on Interoperabilityfor
Electronic Fee Collection

• Presentation of the draft document
• (This presentation does not bind the EC on future
  decisions)

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Directive on EFC

• The context
• present national EFC systems implemented in
  Europe are not compatible IT - F - PT - SLO -
  NO
• standardization process for DSRC has been too
  much delayed, causing trouble in some national
  projects, and weakening the position of the EU
  industry on other markets,

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Directive Télépéage

• new countries in Europe interested by EFC DE -
  AT - UK - NL will or could implement other kinds
  of systems
• some of them already intend to use GPS / GSM
  solutions for HGV charging DE - UK - NL ?
• How many boxes should truck driver host in their
  cabin for the purpose of EFC in the near future?
  Is this acceptable ?

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Directive on EFC

• The objective
• Implement the regulatory frame and tools ensuring
  the deployment of a European EFC service in two
  stages
• first stage HGV and Long Distance Coaches, for
  2005
• second stage all vehicles, for 2010
• The Directive will not interfere with the pricing
  policies of the Member States, but the systems
  implemented should be capable to handle any
  charging policy decided at EU or national levels

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Directive on EFC

• The steps forward
• Concertation meetings with the Member States
  mainly involved in EFC May / June 2002,
• Draft June / July
• Internal Consultation Procedure within the EC
  July / September 2002
• Final draft September 2002
• Adoption by the Commission October 2002

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Directive on EFC

• The Principles
• subsidiarity the actors should keep maximum
  freedom to discuss the details of the regulations
  and agreements to implement
• rely on existing EU projects CARDME, CESARE,
• Take into account existing and planned systems
  within the Member States
• Consider all levels of interoperability

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Directive Télépéage

• The European EFC service
• basic principle one single contract - one
  single onboard unit
• available on the whole tolled network
• used for whatever toll or tax
• allows the same quality of service in any
  country, non depending on the country where the
  contract is signed, the nationality of the
  vehicle or the driver
• offering the service will be mandatory for
  operators
• subscribing to the service will be voluntarily
  for the clients

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Directive on EFC

• The main ideas
• 1. DSRC standardization process
• support the documents concerning the 3 layers
  and the profiles, presented to CEN by the
  majority of European suppliers, and compatible
  with the systems newly implemented within the EU
  FR - ES - AT

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Directive on EFC

• DSRC 5.8 GHz is the short term-solution, needed
  for
• the position of the European industry on the
  world market
• indication to the countries who intend to use
  this technology in their future systems and ask
  which DSRC to use ?

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Directive on EFC

• 2. Long term solution
• Implement for 2005 - 2008 the GNSS / GSM / DSRC
  solution for trucks and coaches everywhere in
  Europe
• Heavy goods vehicles which will use the European
  service would be equipped with an onboard unit
  offering the three interfaces, and provided by
  all the distributors offering the service,
• toll transactions would use one or more of these
  interfaces, according to the application chosen
  for instance DSRC in Spain or Austria, GNSS / GSM
  in Germany and United Kingdom. Operators remain
  free to choose.

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Directive Télépéage

• Onboard unit may be linked to digital tachygraph
  for the purpose of fee computations
• Enforcement would use also these interfaces
• Generalize for 2010 this solution to all types of
  vehicles, and study the necessary migration
  strategy
• At this time, the 3 interfaces should be
  integrated when constructing the vehicles, at
  approximately the same price than the present
  DSRC onboard units

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Directive on EFC

• Other technologies might be added in the OBU
  (for instance infrared),
• but their use must not make discrimination
  between the equipped ones and the others.

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Directive on EFC

• 3. Implement a Regulation Committee with
  representatives of the Member States in order to
  finalize the issues necessary for the deployment
  of the European service.
• The organization and voting procedures will be
  defined by the European rules about comitology
• The work program and time scale of the Committee
  will be fixed by the European Commission
• The following slides give ideas on this work
  program

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Directive on EFC

• 3.1 Implementation by the operators of
  contractual agreements allowing to offer the
  European EFC service to clients on the whole
  tolled network
• with the same conditions everywhere,
• and the possibility to subscribe on the whole
  network
• These contractual agreements will be based on the
  Memorandum of Understanding produced by CESARE
  II
• Extend later these agreements to the banking
  sector

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Directive on EFC

• 3.2 Use the CARDME 4 transaction model as a
  basis for the DSRC transactions, eventually
  limited to CESARE 2
• 3.3 Develop the equivalent of the CARDME 4 model
  for the GNSS / GSM solution, in the short term,
  together with the German EFC project, the UK
  haulage industry taxation project, in compliance
  with the CARDME 4 design. This in order to avoid
  dispersion of the solutions. Work has started
  with CEN TC 278 SG 1.5

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Directive on EFC

• 3.4 Manage evolution of technologies UMTs vs
  GPRS - GALILEO vs GPS
• 3.5 Encourage the operators to harmonize the
  procedures between their networks, especially on
  
• vehicle classification
• signalization
• toll point crossing
• exception handling
• after-sales service
• non-equipped users

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Directive on EFC

• 3.6 Propose to the clients a unique contract
  model, and identical subscription conditions in
  all countries and for all operators
• 3.7 Recall the basic following principles
• non equipped users should be allowed to use the
  network with seamless payment conditions,
• compliance with the EU regulations on privacy
  protection and data handling, especially during
  the transaction and exception handling

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Directive on EFC

• 3.8 Exception Handling
• the basic principle should be the à priori good
  faith of the clients
• ensure the equality of treatment in exception
  handling on every tolled location between all
  users, whatever their home country
• harmonization of the EU Member States towards
  violations of road regulations
• a Memorandum of Understanding on cross-border
  enforcement of traffic violations should be
  implemented, as recommended by VERA
• pan-European certification procedures to define
  and implement for equipment in charge of
  detection and identification of offending
  vehicles