·Japan ETC preferential fees to ease highway traffic

After nearly eight years, returning to Tokyo, I found that an important change in Japan is that highway toll stations in Tokyo and Japan, as well as most motor vehicles, have been installed and equipped with electronic toll collection systems that can be paid without parking. ETC). In the past, the phenomenon of long queues waiting to be paid in front of toll stations has basically disappeared, and the expressways are smoother and faster than ever.

In 1997, Japan began to use ETC for special vehicles on expressways. Commercial trial operation began in 1999 and was officially adopted on the East Kanto Expressway in 2000. In order to speed up the popularization and application of electronic toll collection systems, eliminate the time-consuming and labor-intensive manual payment for traffic congestion on specific road sections and enhance the capacity of expressways, the Japanese government and the four major highway management companies have adopted various preferential measures to encourage car owners to use them. Expressway automatic toll collection system to pay tolls.

First, the Japanese government provides subsidies to users who install electronic payment vehicle-mounted devices (electronic tags) to reduce the additional burden on users. The cost of vehicle-mounted devices is usually between 3,700 yen and 10,000 yen. Secondly, the expressway management company has developed a variety of toll fee concessions to bring benefits to users. It is stipulated that users can use the ETC to pay, not only can get a rebate of 3% to 8%, but also different discounts in different time periods and different road sections. The specific preferential policies are: morning and evening discounts, late night discounts, holiday offers, etc. Different highway management companies and different road sections have different discount rates. The morning and evening discounts are usually between 8% and 10%, the holiday discounts are usually 30% to 50%, and the late night discount is 50%. Due to the large amount of concessions at night, the large trucks that many Japanese logistics companies ran and transported basically went on the road at night.

The Japanese non-stop electronic toll collection system (ETC) exchanges information between the vehicle-mounted device (electronic tag) installed on the windshield of the vehicle and the microwave antenna on the ETC lane of the toll station, and uses the computer networking technology to perform background settlement with the bank. toll. The vehicle-mounted device can be purchased at a car dealership and assisted by the installation. The ETC card used to pay and settle the toll can be purchased from a credit card company, a bank or a highway management company, or it can be entrusted to a car dealership.

Because of the many preferential policies that can be enjoyed by using ETC payment, it has won the favor of Japanese auto users, and the vehicles equipped with electronic payment vehicle-mounted devices have exploded. According to statistics released by relevant Japanese authorities, in 2005, 10 vehicles were equipped with vehicle-mounted devices (electronic tags) in Japan, and increased to 20 million in 2007. In 2010, it doubled to 4,000 in 2007. Ten thousand cars. As of the end of March 2014, the number of vehicles equipped with vehicle-mounted devices in Japan exceeded 60 million, and more than half of the cars in Japan were equipped with electronic payment vehicles.

Since most of the vehicles in Japan are equipped with electronic payment vehicle-mounted devices, most of the vehicle passages of the corresponding highway toll stations are also changed to ETC-dedicated channels. At least half of the toll stations on the Tokyo Expressway have been converted into dedicated channels for electronic tolls. The dedicated channel is only available for vehicles with on-board electronic toll collection system. In some toll stations of the main line, most of the vehicle passages have been converted into dedicated channels for electronic tolls, and only 2 to 3 channels are available for manual charging. Therefore, vehicles that do not have an electronic payment function must carefully observe which channel is manually charged before entering the toll booth. Otherwise, if the automatic charging dedicated channel is mistaken, it will cause trouble. Even with only two lanes of small entrances and exits, at least one of the passages is dedicated to vehicles with ETC vehicle-mounted vehicles.

At present, the technology and application of Japan ETC are very mature. In April 2008, the ETC utilization rate of the Tokyo Expressway has reached 80%. In December of the same year, the ETC utilization rate of the national expressway reached 75%. In the year, the ETC utilization rate of the Tokyo Expressway increased by 90%, and the national average reached 85%. That is to say, 85% of the cars that run on the highways in Japan use the electronic payment system to pay the tolls. .

The full use of the Japanese highway electronic toll collection system has produced huge economic benefits, and users have reduced the burden of tolls. As the demand for toll station staff has decreased and the utilization rate of highways has increased, the profits of expressway management companies have also increased substantially.

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