Secured short time automated toll fee collection for private group transportation

Automated toll fee collection in Indian road has been widely anticipated. This has been a challenge because of cost and efficiency of these systems. This paper presents automated toll fee collection system in more efficient, faster, low cost and in very secure manner. Normal cameras are used to capture vehicle number plates and vehicle numbers are retrieved. Using the retrieved vehicular id the details of the owner and linked bank accounts are collected from database. The toll fee is deduced from bank account if amount is available else manually paid. If more than one vehicle belonging to a particular organization is present nearby toll then these vehicles are clustered to reduce the number of transactions made. One vehicle is elected as a cluster head and this vehicle represents all the cluster members and an ID based multi signature scheme is used for authentication. Experimental evaluation and analysis shows that the cluster based scheme performs better compared to non cluster approaches.