Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 1st (Reporter Wei Yukun) The switching of the expressway provincial boundary toll stations was successfully completed at 0: 00 on the 1st, and all 487 provincial boundary toll stations in 29 networked provinces across the country were cancelled, which means that the task of canceling the expressway provincial boundary toll stations was basically completed.
Wu Dejin, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said that after the provincial toll stations of expressways are abolished, the national expressways will realize "one network" operation, which will effectively improve the operation efficiency of the comprehensive transportation system, alleviate congestion, improve people’s travel experience, help save energy and reduce emissions, and reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Wu Dejin introduced 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 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 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.
Wu Dejin 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 services, and "green passage" for the transportation of fresh agricultural products. 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.
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