AUTOMATED TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM
Thursday, January 6, 2011
, Posted by the InCrediBLe at 3:10 AM
AUTOMATED TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM
SYNOPSIS
SITUATION
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Today’s traffic conditions are very congested, quite inefficient and also contributing pollution. According to our study and research of present toll collection centers, it is not flexible and not proving fruitful. On the contrary they are proving more harmful in the indirect sense. As we must have observed the regular toll collection center, we can see that lots of time is wasted in toll collection, it also increases the volume of pollution. Speaking of more about the conventional system it also requires more time and yet not accurate at its working. It means corruption is liable to arise at such toll collection centers. We can imagine that a truck is carrying 1000 kilos of some valuables and only 500 kilos are being charged or been shown incorrectly at toll collection center by the responsible authority then bribe is given and accepted.
It means the funds which are supposed to be collected for the betterment of city; it is not reached properly to its destiny. The result is poor development, poor management and lack of funds. This all situation is discussed only for one toll collection center. What if same situation arises for almost every toll collection center? An estimate of annual billions of rupees is being lost in direct or indirect form. Direct form means compromising on the collection amount and indirect amount means wastage of fuel at the toll collection centers.
WASTAGE OF TIME
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Suppose the manual toll collection system is very efficient then for
- One vehicle to stop and pay taxes total time taken is 45 seconds.
- And suppose 100 vehicles cross the toll plaza
- Then, time taken by 1 vehicle with 45 second average stop in a month is: 45X30= 1350 seconds
- Yearly total time taken = 1350X12 = 16200seconds = 4.5 hours
- On average each vehicle that passes through the toll plaza has to wait 4.5 hours in engine start condition yearly.
- The figure is staggering if on an average we take 100 vehicles pass through the toll plaza each day, then yearly 36000 vehicles pass through the toll plaza.
- And each year 36000 vehicles just stand still for 4.5 hours in engine start condition thereby aiding pollution and wasting fuel and money.
- This study is if the system is very efficient but what if the vehicle has to
wait for 5 minutes?
- This is a figure considering one toll plaza. If considering 50 toll systems
the above figure will drastically increase and the wastage of fuel, money
will increase and pollution will also increase.
WASTAGE OF MONEY
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- If there are 100 manual toll-tax system and everyday 100 vehicles cross through each system,
- Then No of vehicle that pass through one system yearly=
100 x 30 x 12 = 36,000.
- No of vehicle that pass through 100 system yearly=
100 x 36,000 = 36, 00,000.
- This figure indicates that in one year each of the 36, 00,000 vehicles just
stand still for about 4.5 hours in engine start condition creating
pollution and burning fuel.
- Suppose that in 4.5 hours a vehicle uses 1 liter fuel.
- So, Total fuel used by all the vehicles:
36, 00,000 x 1 = 36, 00, 000 liter
- Assuming cost of 1 liter fuel = Rs.40
- Total cost of fuel consumed by 36, 00000 vehicles =
40 x 36, 00,000 = Rs.14, 40, 00000
The above is the money wastage under the consideration that the vehicle stops for 45 second at the toll system, and 100 vehicles pass through the toll plaza each day and there are 100 toll plazas. These figures are all in minimum.
POLLUTION
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This is emission chart of how pollution increases when vehicle speed is low…
NEED OF ACS
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The above mentioned losses can put huge burden on Government and the citizens. Reducing these losses is the ample reason for which the need for ACS is there. The loss of time puts in a lot of frustration in everyone having to wait for their turn to pay the tax. Most of us want a speedy transport without any obstruction. When it is a known fact that oil is depleting day by day, just standing, waiting and wasting oil does not make any sense. Loss of fuel is most at reduced speed. So there is a need for continuous motion. When a number of vehicles have to wait nobody bothers to witch off the engines while waiting and so fuel emission is most at this level. This is a major contributor to the already increasing pollution. So there is need for ACS which will cut down on every loss and make it possible to achieve a speedy and non obstructed transport.
FEATURES OF ACS
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ACS is an automatic collection system used for collecting tax automatically. In this we do the identification with the help of radio frequency. Flexibility is the main feature and with the slightest change this can be converted to a completely new implementation. With the help of the latest technology (RFID), the implementation of this project is very simplified. RFID technology together with a very secure database yields into a highly efficient and secure system.
Following are the features and advancement of ACS over presently existing system:
- RFID tag cannot be cloned, so cannot be cheated.
- Very efficient saving of time.
- Wastage of money reduced.
- Consumption of oil is reduced.
- Pollution is reduced to a large extent.
- Speedy transport.
- Less congestion on the roadways.
- Comparatively less maintenance cost.
HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
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| No. | HARDWARE |
| 1 | GP20 READER |
| 2 | TAGS |
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
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Framework : .NET 2.0.
Software Package : VISUAL STUDIO .NET 2005
Language for Development : C# .NET.
Database : MS ACCESS 2003
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