Automated Toll Collection System
Automated Toll Collection System
Volume 5, Issue 4, April – 2020 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology
ISSN No:-2456-2165
Automated Toll Collection System
Harish V1,Assistant Professor S.Md. Shakeel Ahammed3, Student Y. Siva Dinesh Kumar Reddy5, Student
Electronics & Communication Electronics & Communication Electronics & Communication
Engineering Department Engineering Engineering
Nagarjuna college of engineering & Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Nagarjuna College of Engineering and
Technology Technology Technology
Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, India
S. Ravi Kishore2, Student S. Maneendra4, Student
Electronics & Communication Engineering Electronics & Communication Engineering
Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology
Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, India
Abstract:- Nowadays, due to increase in density of advance and load money into a declining balance account,
vehicles on highways, there is more traffic at the toll which is debited each time they pass a toll point.
booths to pay toll fare. These vehicles have to pay toll at
the toll plaza. A typical toll booth is manually operated. II. RELATED WORK
When user approaches toll plaza, he has to pay toll.
This process on an average takes two to four minutes The first paper discussed about a system which is
for each vehicle When more number of vehicles developed to provide following attributes:
approaches the toll plaza it takes more time to collect
toll. This delay can be reduced by automating the toll Decreases time for collection of tariff at tollbooth.
collection process thereby enabling smooth traffic flow Using RFID, the tags can be sensed at larger distances.
at such junctions. The information present in the tag can be collected even
when the tag and reader are 300 feet apart.
This project focuses on toll collection system using When the subscriber’s vehicle approaches the tollbooth,
radio frequency identification technology. This enables it transmits the data to the tollbooth. The system at the
more efficient toll collection by reducing traffic. This toll booth will calculate the toll and collects the amount
increases the efficiency as rid is known as a highly on his/her wallet.
stable technology. This system is successful in reducing In this design the vehicle can also pass the tollbooth
the logging of traffic near toll booth. without slowing down or stopping. So the driver will
feel more convenient. As a result the flow of traffic will
Keywords:- Radio Frequency Identification Technology. be improved which reduces the manual work needed at
the tollbooth.
I. INTRODUCTION The flow of traffic at tollbooth will be improved.
Since the manual collection of cash is eliminated, it is
Automated toll collection system is a wifi technique to more convenient to use this system.
take utilisation payment or tax to automobiles using toll The cost for managing the system will be reduced.
bridges, and toll gates. This is speedily different that is This design provides better and smooth service for the
changing toll plazas, where automobiles should cease and subscriber.
chauffeur physically funds the tax with money otherwise a It is easier to find the vehicle if it is stolen. This design
ATM card. In many scheme, automobiles make use of the makes use of RFID technology. RFID stands for radio
technique are provided along an automated radio frequency identification. This technology consists of an
transmitter system. When the automobiles moves a RFID receiver, RFID transmitter, and a computer.
highway side toll reader devices, a communication among
the transmitter prompt the receiver, that sends back an This design consists of software which operates with
recognise number that listing the automobile’s utilise of two major sections. The first one is user interface(UI) and
road, an electronic tax system tariff the customer the toll. A the other one is a database.The user interface and database
crucial important is the chauffeur does nothing to stop, are connected in this design. The user interface is front end
lessen jam delays. Automated tolling is affordable than a where as the database comes under backend. The
manually toll booth, decreasing transaction costs for microcontroller and personal computer are tied-up using
government or personal road owners. The easy of differ the MPLAB. MPLAB is an integrated development
amount of quantity of the charges makes it simple to environment. Therefore the software of this system has
accomplish road blockage, pricing, as well as for high- three main sections namely user interface(UI), database and
placed lanes, toll lanes that bypass congestion, and MATLAB. The detailed explanation of flow chart is given
metropolis wide congestion pays. The fee collection below.
procedure normally requires customer to registration in
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The implementation of the system is very simple as it it would be a major fault in the system design. This also
is evident from the flowchart. In the flow chart there is only results in financial losses.
one decision to make and the remaining part of the
flowchart is linear. If the user do not have sufficient This paper conceptualised the use of automated toll
balance in his wallet, and passes the tollbooth, the gate collection.The design is easy and convenient. The system
would remain closed. But the user would be unaware of the proposed in this system is ATCS stands for Automated Toll
reason until he receives a message saying insufficient Collection System reduces the financial losses for
balance. This results in unexpected traffic jams. In reality govenment. The ideas proposed in the paper had an edge
this system is very stable and reliable because of RFID over another electronic methods due to its flexible nature
technology.This is concluded in second paper. The traffic and easy implementation. [4]
density at the tollbooths will be reduced because of this
system. [2] Automated Toll Collection System used for collecting
tax automatically. The radio frequency helps in identifying
The design of the system referred in the third paper the vehicle. A vehicle will be installed with an RFID tag.
focuses mainly on the time taken to make a transaction in This tag is represents the unique identification number of
manual methods and issues faced during the transaction. the vehicle. Reader will be installed at toll collection centre.
This paper discusses about the problems faced in the Whenever the vehicle passes the toll, the tax amount will be
manual toll collection process and how this system will collected. Whenever the vehicle passes the toll the tax
solve them. amount will be deducted from his prepaid balance. [5]
The system proposed in this paper has the following III. METHODOLOGY
major components:
When the vehicles reach toll plaza, they have to pay
Tag: transponder the toll manually, which takes time. In present system the
RFReader: Antenna highways takes about a minute or more to collect the
money from user in vehicle. If the traffic density is more,
Tag : For every subscriber the RFID tag is provided then there is a chance that the traffic is jammed to a long
which is installed in the vehicle. The tag consists of distance. In this scenario it is better to have a system which
transponder. This tag is of two types namely Active or can automate the toll collection. Hence we decided to
Passive. Every tag has its own Tag ID. The tag consists of automate the collection of toll at toll plazas, toll bridges and
other information stored in it. toll tunnels. Automation means to remove the human effort
and replace it with machines. In this system we assign each
The RF Reader: The RFID tag contains information. user with a unique RFID. The user has to recharge his
This information is read by the component at the tollbooth wallet with minimum balance. Whenever the vehicle
which is known as RF reader. The details of various types reaches the toll the transmitter attached to the vehicle
of RFID technologies are discussed in this paper. This transmits its identity to the receiver at the toll. Now the
makes us more convenient to choose the correct technology system sends the identity to the microcontroller. After
required for our system. checking the identity it checks whether the vehicle is on
two way journey. If the vehicle is on its first trip, the
The system mentioned in the third paper is different system deducts the amount as per the tariff. If the vehicle is
from the ones discussed in first and second papers. It is on its return trip it does not charge the amount. Hence the
referred as Traffic Control System. This system is designed time taken to complete the transaction is reduced. The
in such a way that it separates the cars to different toll advantage of this system is it reduces traffic and decreases
gates. This system uses an algorithm called as Lane the fuel wastage. It also reduces the time taken for journey
Allocation Algorithm. This algorithm is written in such a and the money loss will be reduced.
way that it allocates the oncoming traffic to different toll
gates. This provides a better flow of traffic. This algorithm IV. WORKING
has to be designed with much attention because if this
algorithm fails to distribute the vehicles, it may lead to In this project there are two sections. The first one is
traffic jams. Vehicle section and the other is Toll section. The vehicle
section contains an encoder and RF transmitter whereas the
The system discussed in this system is unique from receiver section consists of decoder and RF receiver. When
the systems mentioned in first and second papers because the user comes to the tollbooth it transmits the data to the
this contains traffic speed controller. This system consists toll section via RF medium. The toll section, after receiving
of an Electronic Computer Unit(ECU). The ECU provides the signal decodes the data and deducts the amount from
access to the tag installed in the vehicle. When the car is user account and opens the gate. If the user do not have
approaching the tollbooth at higher speeds, then the ECU sufficient balance the gates will not be opened. This
decreases the speed of the vehicle. If the user is moving at process continues as long as the power supply is supplied.
high speeds and the reader is unable to identify the tag, then
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Fig 1
Implementation of this technology will dramatically
decrease the traffic at toll junction.
