Consortium High-Level View on RCI Architecture and Specifications

This paper has been drafted by the RCI consortium, approved by the RCI Steering Committee and endorsed by the EC, with the purpose to

• create a common understanding inside the RCI consortium on the “what”, “why” and “how” of the concept of interoperability including the Toll Context Definition;
• increase European awareness and acceptation for European interoperability and how it can be realised.

The Toll Context Definition is a crucial concept for interoperability of road charging solutions across different tolled infrastructures in Europe. It will be this definition that will define the balance between harmonisation in Europe of different systems and the flexibility and freedom that toll chargers and Member States have in defining their personalised requirements for a new system that is meant to be compliant to the future European Electronic Tolling Service.

  Consortium High-Level View on Architecture Interoperability V1.1.pdf