Key Concepts

This Key concepts page would provide an overview of the logical concepts of operations used in this trial, including six Concept of Operations (ConOps) models to calculate Road User Charges for multi-component vehicle configurations and the existing fuel excise based PAYGO charges calculation method.

Please visit the PAYGO Charge Calculation for detailed explanation on how PAYGO charges work.

Proposed Distance-based charge calculation using concept of operation (ConOps)

These Concept of operations determine how the trial participant’s vehicle tracking data is analysed and factored during the generation of their mock invoice.

Concept	Summary	Requirements	Reporting	Charges (Distance + Location) plus
ConOps 1	Telematics in prime mover, system will detect change in configuration automatically	Telematics installed in Prime mover Functionality for automatic detection of change in configuration	Single unit reports all data	Total configuration Maximum regulatory mass
ConOps 2	Reporting of configuration by component, charges based on full vehicle configuration, individual telematics devices in each trailer and report separate trip data	Telematics installed in all the components	Individual units report separately	Total configuration Maximum regulatory mass
ConOps 3	Telematics in each component and calculates distance & location points individually	Telematics installed in all the components	Calculates the distance and location points individually	Based on individual units Maximum regulatory mass
ConOps 4	Telematics device in prime mover and operator manually declares mass of the configuration through telematics system	Telematics installed in Prime mover	Manually by operator	Operator declared configuration Maximum regulatory mass
ConOps 5	Telematics device in prime with onboard scales in trailers communicating to the telematics device in the prime mover	Telematics installed Prime mover On-board scales or mass measurement device	Single unit does all reporting Configuration of vehicle Mass of config	Total configuration Actual mass recorded by on board scales.
No ConOps	Telematics device in prime mover vehicle configuration reported through a manual vehicle register	Telematics installed Prime mover	Reported through manual vehicle register	Maximum regulatory mass

There are a total of 6 Concept of operations (Con-ops). Please see the links below for detailed explanation on how different Con-Ops work