Customer: EE, DG XIII

Duration: December 1997 – May 2000

The design guideline will support interoperability of enforcement systems while allowing individual countries the freedom, under the principle of subsidiarity, to operate whatever vehicle classification system is most appropriate to their national circumstances and to enable cross-border prossecution of violators.
Toll operators in Austria, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Portugal will provide practical experience of classification systems in operation. In addition, further technical developments will be undertaken in Malgara, Greece, Trondheim, Norway and the TRL test track in the UK. The new systems will be subject to independent validation. Results from the Swiss trials will also be made available to the project. In Greece, the systems will correlated, claimed and measured characteristics. In Norway, claimed and measured characteristics will be correlated, automatic video processing will be introduced and procedures for dealing with foreign violators will be improved. In the UK, video recognition processes will be improved and extended to European registration plates. ADVICE aims to develop and test automatic vehicle classification and enforcement systems and to produce common European guidelines for the specification of such systems.
These guidelines will take full account of existing systems, while providing a basis for the development of new systems, particularly for multi-lane operation. The guidelines will conform to all relevant CEN, ETSI and ISO standards, particularly those for Dedicated Short Range Communications. The focus of the project is on Electronic Fee Collection (EFC). The Development of the requirements for classification and enforcement will:
• Undertake full functional analysis of classification and enforcement systems
• Use the functional analysis to draw up Guidelines based on the requirements
• Provide products/solutions designed to meet the requirements
• Use established national trial sites to test these products against the specification

Role of TREDIT:
– The analysis of User requirements
– Standardization of operation of classification and enforcement system for multi-lane operations