scope:

The scope for the present standard covers: . EFC systems for vehicle related transport services, e.g. road user charging, parking and access control. The standard does not cover Electronic Fare Collection systems for Public Transport. It should be noted that an EFC system may include any electronic fee collection system, e.g. also systems automatically reading licence plate numbers of vehicles passing a charging point. . Exchange of information between Service Provision and Toll Charging between the Back End systems of EFC systems, e.g. . Charging Data . Administrative Data . Confirmation Data . Transfer mechanisms and supporting functions . Information objects, data syntax and semantics . Examples of data interchanges The Standard shall support any EFC Service and EFC Application independent of the technology used for fee collection. The present standard is defined as a toolbox standard of transactions and messages which may be used for the assigned purpose. The actual definition of mandatory and optional elements in a real implementation must be defined elsewhere. The present standard does also not define communication sequences communication stacks and timings. Any communication between Toll Charger and/or Toll Service Provider with any other involved party is outside the scope of the present standard. Also any communication between elements of the Toll Charger and the Toll Service Provider which is not part of the back office communication is outside of the scope of this standard. The scope of this present standard is illustrated in the following figure.