International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 2, February-2014 843 ISSN 2229-5518 IJSER © 2014 http://www.ijser.org Secured Electronic toll collection using RFID and mobile application Prof. Ramkrishna Vadali, Amey Shinde, Pratik Ghuse, Shashikant More and Dinesh Tope Abstract— The electronic toll collection using RFID & mobile application is a technology that will allow user to make the payment of highway tolls automatically. This terminology will in turn save the time as well as the money by decreasing the waiting time as well as the queues of vehicles at the tollbooth. The RFID tag will be deployed by the toll authority by embedding unique identification number (UIN) and customer’s details into the tag. The deployed active RFID tag will be attached to the windshield of the vehicle. Whenever the vehicle passes through the tollbooth, tag data will be read by RFID reader & same will be sent to the server for verification. Server will check tag details & depending upon the type of the vehicle, the toll amount will be deducted from the user’s account. The notification about the toll amount deduction will be sent to the cus-tomer via SMS and email as well. The developed android application will be used to recharge the customer’s account. Keywords: RFID, Active RFID tags, Electronic Toll Collection. ——————————  —————————— 1 INTRODUCTION Considering the current scenario, the numbers of vehicles passing through a specific tollbooth are substantially high. Hence there is a need for the alternate solution for the high- way toll collection method which should be more opportune, cost effective and more efficient to the traditional toll collec- tion method. The considered system will provide the better solutions to the toll collection and will deal with the problems coming due to the traditional toll collection system. . 2 SCOPE OF ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION IN INDIA India has about 42.36 Lakh kilometers of road network, which is that the second largest within the world. [1] The length of varied categories of roads is as follows:- 1. National Highways - 70,934 km 2. State Highways - 1, 54, 522 km 3. Major district roads - 25, 77, 396 km 4. Rural roads - 14, 33, 577 km. [2] According to the report given by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) National Highways carry 40% of road traffic. Due to this traffic congestion is very high and to reduce it, Electronic Toll Collection must be implemented. And its major concern is to reduce the traffic density, provides road safety and also increases the Central Government’s Economy. And National Highways Lane wise distribution can be classified as, 4-Lane - 22.3% 2-Lane - 52.3% Single Lane - 25.4% There is a possibility of maintaining ETC’s on state highways as well as in busiest hours in cities. Hence for the effective traf- fic management during those hours ETC is needed. Factors to be considered for a better system are:- 1. The system must be interoperable nationwide, and afforda- ble. 2. Technologies should be tried and tested. 3. Systems should be easy to use. 4. ETC should be scalable to other applications. 5. Payments should be possible through credit cards and mo- bile phones etc. IJSER