Decentralized Data Allocation for Automatic Toll Collection Systems
for Transportation Services
Mikio TANAKA
For the purpose of an automatic toll collection systems
for transportation services, a decentralized data allocation
method in distributed communication systems is discussed.
A model to formulate the movement of users (passengers or
vehicles) along a transportation network is proposed. Then
the merits of user-ID based toll collection system is
introduced. For the purpose of this user-ID based toll
collection system, the allocation of replicated data over
a transportation network is required in order to reduce
processing time at exit nodes. Some methods to implement
this system and methods to evaluate their costs are studied.