Highway: electronic toll collection in the development and application in China

I believe for expressway toll station a long convoy of scenarios are not new, this release is not a place, which is a universal phenomenon, then this might be caused by?

Now our main Expressway toll way, three artificial charges, semi-automatic, electronic toll collection.

Of these, most artificial fee for this stage of the main charge, it is because this charging method has led to the occurrence of such circumstances.

Each car parking from toll pass, and payment of fees, to start this process though not too long and just need more than ten seconds or so, this time for a car it is nothing, but many vehicle time accumulated is a very impressive figures, this undoubtedly greatly affected the efficiency of the patency of the expressway has had a tremendous impact, causing traffic congestion, or even cause significant economic losses.

And semi-automatic charges compared to progress very much, traffic over the toll station, you only need to be prepared before payment of the non-contact IC card reader of the toll stations with a brush, it can be a successful payment, significantly reduces the time required for the toll station of jam played a certain degree of ease.

However, it is clear that manual and semi-automatic toll charges are unable to meet highway toll efficient requirements, therefore, electronic toll collection more and more people are concerned about.

This stage of development

Motorway fees not plague China, in order to resolve this problem, many countries are actively developing non-stop electronic toll collection system, and many countries have entered the practical stage.

Europe, America, Japan and other developed countries and regions have already been installed on some highways do not stop electronic toll collection system, the vehicle through the toll station of maximum speed or even up to 200 km/hour, effectively eased because of parking and traffic conditions. Practice shows that the use of non-stop electronic toll collection system is not only able to fundamentally resolve the slow process of manual toll traffic jams, and can reduce costs, eliminate levies charges arising in the course of the phenomenon of corruption, and to reduce motor vehicle fuel consumption, reduce air pollution, thereby creating significant social and economic benefits.

At present, apart from Japan, other countries commonly adopted electronic toll collection technology programme, most of them are single-chip system ETC.

This is to open fees, economically developed, ETC vehicle rate relatively high application is great for the environment. While Japan's two-chip on-board electronic labelling system, the use of a dual antenna, was established on all toll stations into/ETC, that is, the exit lane ETC form an independent operation of a closed network, investment is high, ETC tags and IC card issuance model complex.

However, the existing technical programmes and ETC operating mode is not suitable for the economic development of China's regional imbalance condition of toll collection requirements of the new situation.

To our country successfully promoted the application fees, ETC need to be on the programme.

To this end, the national intelligent transportation system engineering technology research center, pioneering the "dual-interface chip CPU card + two electronic tags" combined toll technology programme for artificial semi-automatic alternate billing and electronic toll collection modes, from largely solved the massive road network in electronic toll collection system for the implementation of the above issues.

In addition, the use of high-security prepaid card carry fees e-payment service is inevitable trend, combined networked electronic toll collection solutions enable IC card payment technology and electronic toll collection technology is compatible with and complement each other and also conforms to this requirement.

Internally, first person yuetong card next

Many places back in a few years ago began electronic toll collection of experimental work, however, the effect is not very satisfactory.

In 1999, Shandong, Sichuan province-wide toll first proposed, accompanied by many mainline of demolition, highway toll system from sections of the State of independent charging into the networked unified fee, toll charges owners split times.

By 2003, toll collection began to take shape in provinces with Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Sichuan, Hunan, etc. Also in the implementation of the provinces are Beijing, Guangdong Province, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Anhui, and so on.

Now domestic electronic toll collection of status, yuetong card can be said to be very successful.

Yuetong card use has spread throughout the entire district, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, Guangdong Expressway toll systems contribute tremendous strength. Yuetong card is semi-automatic charges and no parking, the combination of separate use yuetong card, you can implement semiautomatic charges, vehicles pass through the toll station, you can hold yuetong payment card, the entire process only takes 5-6 seconds, and the original manual fees to 20-30 seconds in the vehicle above plus the use of electronic tags, and tag yuetong card combination of ways you can implement electronic toll collection, traffic to 30 km/h speed through the toll station, the whole process is less than 1 second, which greatly improves the efficiency of the toll station, largely resolved the vehicles clogging, saving time and resources. Yuetong card can say is that a typical application, and other areas of learning.

Promotion process is not a straight

Although the prospect of widespread, however, its development in China but not sweet.

It can be said that in electronic toll collection of promotion, Shanghai is going ahead, but also the first to have been failures. Shanghai urban construction group from 1999 began developing toll collection system, selected by the National Ministry of transport, the project was identified as the "State of the State economic and technical innovation and industrialization project" demonstration project. The advantages are obvious, ETC but is the expert, social expectation on new technology does not "appreciate", although the 3-year extension, recommended activities, may have in Shanghai highway toll station still is a white one, even when installed in HongQiaoThe system of airport charges, or have already become deaf ears, the same situation is not alone in Shanghai, which is a universal problem.

The same problem also appears not only in China, Japan, in the process of implementing ETC charging because it is not in the market to do full investigation and analysis, economic sustainability was overly optimistic estimates, resulting in the launch of the technical system ETC products and the resulting two-chip RFID technology standard product price high ($ 250-340).

The system introduced by the market reception active installation electronic tag number of the vehicle is much lower than expected, the managers of that original tension is compounded by road resources — — because a certain proportion of road resources to as ETC lanes, the card too little cause for vehicles etc lane utilization ratio is extremely low, the original is not comfortable artificial congestion toll lane phenomenon.

Thus, even if Japan such a developed economies, since the management departments of applied research on technical system ETC is not thorough, implementation of products and systems with strong purchasing power Japan nationals cannot afford.

Therefore, the only good intentions without an in-depth and detailed investigation that ultimately subject to the constraints of market regulation law, decision making mistakes will make their own high-tech burden on its back. Therefore, electronic toll collection system is very good, but still under specific circumstances, blindly.

Prospect very nice, but need to gallop

In recent years, China's economic boom, which directly led to a significant increase of the vehicle, highway, bridge toll gate of vehicle queue congestion is more serious, in China, the demand for ETC system even than abroad, toll traffic jams are a waste of time, not just more wasted a lot of resources, while causing serious pollution, we can say that the electronic toll collection system is imperative, it is a developing direction in the future.

However, China is a developing country, relatively late on highway construction, infrastructure, regional economic development and market demand, as well as vehicle user consumption extremely uneven implementation of networking, scale ETC system material base and market conditions is not yet in place.

Application status ETC from abroad, mostly to regional networking, national networking only confined to the land area is relatively small, it industry of developed European countries as well as Singapore and City State. China's vast, and is closely related to the highway network ETC system nationwide financial settlement network credit system, calculation data communication transmission network and market mechanisms, such as supporting infrastructure is not perfect. Therefore, we need a long-term, rigorous certification process to form a standard networked ETC, not be separated from truth, reality and reproduced foreign standards and be implemented in a hurry, otherwise you will not only not to regulate the market, but will result in valuable funds for highway construction of information input and output of serious imbalance, loss of assets.

China has a vast market, urgent needs, we can predict, electronic toll collection in China's future will be very beautiful, but this is a process that never get rich quick, haste makes waste, reference to domestic situations, develop suitable for our internal use of ETC systems is imperative.