OmniAir’s Electronic Payment Services Committee, under an I-95 Corridor Coalition Grant, has developed the first draft of an Electronic Payment Systems National Interoperability Specification (EPSNIS) as well as an EPSNIS Test Specification. The EPSNIS is an open standard developed by OmniAir members intended to enable interoperability across back-office ETC systems for those operators who choose to implement it. The DSRC system being tested is on loan from two sources: 1) RSEs came from NYSDOT’s CVII project; and 2) OBEs were provided from the USDOT IntelliDriveSM Development Test Environment in Detroit Michigan. The system will be collocated with existing E-ZPass AVI equipment and tested at the New York State Bridge Authority’s Beacon Bridge. The Committee created a ‘Integration Team’ consisting or MARK-IV, Telvent-Caseta, Southwest Research Institute (selected to perform the test), and OmniAir members from NYSTA, JAFA Technologies, PANYNJ, and others. 5.9GHz DSRC readers and vehicles with DSRC OBE will be integrated in February and be ready for lane testing in late February/early March. For more information and/or to get involved, send a note to info@omniair.org.