Before the end of this year, the five provinces and autonomous regions of North China and the six provinces of the Yangtze River Delta plus Hunan, Shaanxi, and Liaoning provinces will realize ETC (highway electronic non-stop charging) regional networking. By the end of September next year, the country will basically realize the networking of ETC systems. By then, China will build the world's longest highway ETC networking system. Floor Scrubbing Brush,Floor Washing Machine High Density Filter Element,Short Bristled Antibacterial Roller Brush,Floor Scrubber 0riginal Accessories Grey Whale Intelligent Appliances (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd , https://www.szgraywhale.com
Compared with traditional manual toll stations, ETC can undoubtedly improve the traffic efficiency of highways and save the labor costs of management enterprises. For the driving family who often run at high speed, can ETC ease high-speed congestion and save travel costs? What problems will there be in the implementation?
Can you alleviate high-speed congestion?
Which is the most blocked highway? Non-fee stations are the ones - drivers who often drive long distances should have this experience. Dujiakan toll station, like Beijing's “famousâ€, has become a major “blocking point†in Beijing.
On the expressway, it is often far from the toll booth, and the vehicles start to line up, one for paying, lifting, and slow passage. The ETC channel on the far side of the toll booth is another scene: the vehicle fish has passed through and there is almost no stopping.
"Practice has proved that an ETC lane is equivalent to five manual toll lanes. The average time from the toll station is reduced from 14 seconds to 3 seconds. It has obvious effect on alleviating highway congestion and improving traffic efficiency." ETC Center of the Ministry of Transport Road Network Center Director Wang Gang said.
He calculated the account: If a car reduces the transit time by about 10 seconds, then 100 cars can be reduced by about 16 minutes, and 1000 cars are two and a half hours. Just as the earliest national highways were free, the passing vehicles also issued cards, which became one of the reasons for the congestion of highway toll stations. After that, the toll gates at the toll gates were not released by the card and the congestion was greatly eased.
“Japan’s ETC trading volume accounts for 90% of all expressway traffic, and 90 vehicles in 100 vehicles are completed through ETC. In China, only 7 to 8 percent, and developed provinces are 30 percent, the gap is still large. "Wang Gang said.
How much travel cost can you save?
In addition to improving traffic capacity and saving transit time, ETC can significantly reduce people's travel costs, as well as the logistics costs of the whole society, and achieve energy saving and emission reduction.
Wang Gang introduced that compared with the traditional manual charging model, ETC can save nearly 87% of toll station expansion costs and reduce labor and service costs by about 20%. At the same time, fuel consumption on vehicles can be reduced by an average of 20%; carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by about 50%, and carbon monoxide is reduced by about 70%. In addition, with the improvement of laws and regulations and the freight market, ETC will greatly improve the efficiency of logistics and transportation if applied to trucks.
According to statistics from the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the current number of motor vehicles in the country has exceeded 260 million, and the number of drivers is close to 300 million. It will continue to grow rapidly in the future.
According to the above figures, the annual energy saving and emission reduction of 260 million vehicles is not a small number. Of course, for those who often run high-speed driving, the high-speed charges for using ETC cards will generally be 5% off, which will also reduce travel costs to a certain extent.
Xu Guangjian, deputy dean of the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China, said that in Japan, where the ETC system is more developed, in order to encourage people to use ETC, the Japanese government will provide subsidies to users of vehicles equipped with electronic toll collection systems to reduce the additional burden on users. Secondly, the expressway management company has developed a variety of toll fee concessions to bring benefits to users.
It is reported that Japan requires users to use ETC to pay fees, not only can get 3% to 8% discount, can enjoy different discounts in different time periods and different road sections, and the discount rate even reaches 50% in some time periods.
How to protect user information security?
At present, there are 7 provinces and autonomous regions in China with 7600 ETC lanes and more than 13 million ETC users. What are the problems in the future implementation of ETC?
Some users have reported that the current ETC devices are installed after the car is purchased, all are battery powered. But after three or five years of battery power failure, it is very inconvenient to replace the battery.
Wang Gang said that some auto manufacturers have contacted the road network center, hoping to realize the "pre-installation" of the ETC system, that is, when the consumer buys a car, the ETC is already installed on the car. If the front loading is implemented, the user can directly supply power to the ETC device by the car, and there is no problem of replacing the battery. "Of course, this work involves changes in the distribution system and requires us to do a lot of work in this area."
In addition, with the rapid development of the mobile Internet, many provinces provide APP services, but must ensure the user's information security, there is still a lot of work to do in user information collection, security protection and multimedia applications.
Tao Hanxiang, director of the Road Network Management Division of the Ministry of Communications, said that the national ETC networking involves system compatibility, including the compatibility of vehicles and ETC cards, and other issues are gradually being resolved.