Farewell, provincial toll station of expressway!

　　From 0: 00 on January 1st, all 487 provincial boundary toll stations in 29 interconnected provinces were cancelled. Last night, the grid-connected switching of expressway provincial boundary toll stations was carried out as scheduled.

　　Wu Dejin, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways is not to cancel charges, but to realize fast payment without stopping when vehicles travel across provinces through technical means while dismantling provincial physical toll stations, which involves related work such as scheme formulation, engineering construction, optimization and adjustment of charging policies, and promotion and application of ETC.

　　It is understood that after the cancellation of the provincial toll station, passenger and cargo vehicles can pass quickly at the provincial toll station without stopping, which can effectively solve the congestion problem. The vehicle determines the charging standard through the identification of the vehicle type by the portal system, and the sum of the fees of all the portal frames in the whole driving path of the vehicle is the vehicle toll that the vehicle should pay when passing through this section.

　　Wu Dejin, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport: Vehicles with ETC installed should enter and leave the expressway, and take the dedicated ETC lane without stopping. Non-ETC vehicles should stop and get their cards at the entrance, and stop, pay their cards and pay fees at the exit. After entering the expressway, you can circulate freely.

　　Truck driver: In the past, it usually took three to five minutes to queue up across provinces, and it was longer in traffic jams. It’s convenient now, so don’t wait.

　　It is understood that since the General Office of the State Council issued the "Implementation Plan for Deepening the Reform of Toll Road System and Cancelling Provincial Toll Stations of Expressway", 24,588 sets of ETC gantry systems have been built nationwide, and 48,211 ETC lanes and 11,401 sets of expressway non-stop weighing detection systems have been completed; ETC has promoted and issued 123 million households, with a cumulative number of users reaching 204 million; 12,000 expressway toll collectors have been properly placed and transferred to ETC to promote and distribute customer service, clearing and settlement background services, and realize the largest integrated expressway network in the world with high quality and efficiency.

　　In addition to changing the continuous mileage charging from the entrance and exit of expressway to the sectional charging of ETC portal frame, the charging method will be more accurate.

　　Yong Yang, Expressway Operation Management Department of the First Capital Group: From January 1, 2020, the original starting price and the charging rules of "two homes, eight incomes, three seven five" will be cancelled. ETC vehicles are charged to the minute, and non-ETC vehicles are charged to the yuan.

　　Wu Dejin, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that in 2020, we will continue to deepen the reform of the toll road system, firmly adhere to the safety bottom line, improve the system, promote the revision of the highway law and toll road management regulations, and further improve the policy measures such as fast passage of trucks without stopping, ETC promotion service, and "green passage" for fresh agricultural products transportation. At the same time, we will deepen cost reduction and increase efficiency, strengthen innovation drive, and use modern information technologies such as Beidou, 5G and blockchain to accelerate the research and application of vehicle-road coordination and autonomous driving, improve the service system and improve service quality.