ETC is an electronic automatic toll collection system for highways, bridges and tunnels that is being developed and popularized internationally. This technology has a long history of development abroad, and the electronic toll collection systems in many countries and regions such as the United States and Europe have been partially networked, and economies of scale have gradually formed. In China, the road network charging method based on IC card and magnetic card and manual charging is undoubtedly affected by this trend.
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Automatic electronic toll collection system is a scheme to solve the busy toll collection of expressway. Realizing national networking, automatic bank settlement and rapid passage will be of great benefit to users. Its significance lies in:
(1) There are strict procedures for banks to apply for ETC dedicated channels. By collecting ETC information of toll stations, we can narrow the scope of searching for the whereabouts of electronic tag vehicles.
(2) The interactive service information of the website of the automatic electronic toll collection system (such as comprehensive operation information, management information, planning and construction information, and even the release of guidance information, which is suitable for expressway event detection, congestion prediction, running time prediction, etc.) can feed back the information of customers and the integrity of users.
(3) Automatic electronic toll collection system can be combined with GPS and GIS to improve the efficiency and level of expressway transportation management and service in an all-round way and understand the dynamic whereabouts of customers of automatic electronic toll collection system.
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