The service area on expressway is called "scissors and baggage hammer" because of its image logo. It can provide "one-stop" services such as catering, accommodation, auto repair and refueling for passing vehicles and passengers. After several years of construction in full swing, expressway, Shandong Province will gradually shift from construction-oriented to management-oriented, and management, operation and service have become another kind of "scissors and burden hammer" in expressway, Shandong Province. Let's learn how expressway is operated and managed, and what kind of service it can provide you. (Qufu Highway Service Station on Beijing-Fuzhou expressway)
Get on the whole journey of high-speed service
If you often run on expressway, you may have an intuitive understanding of its operation and management. You have to pay the entrance fee. When you get on the road, you may see the road maintenance man wearing an orange vest repairing, cleaning the road and watering the flowers and plants. You may also see the wrecker providing maintenance or trailer service for the broken down car; If you are tired on the way, you can go to the service area to eat, refuel, repair cars, shop and so on. Some service areas in Shandong have bowling alleys, while others are close to lakes where fishing can be done. If you have enough time, you might as well have some entertainment before you go. The relevant person in charge of Shandong expressway Co., Ltd. said that the purpose of expressway's operation and management is to ensure a safe, smooth and high-quality driving environment for users and improve investment efficiency. Therefore, the main content of management is to establish high-quality and efficient maintenance methods to meet the needs of expressway traffic, and to keep roads and their ancillary facilities in good condition; Maintain traffic order in expressway to ensure safety and smoothness; Improve the charging method, improve efficiency and ensure the completion of the charging task; Provide warm, comfortable, convenient and thoughtful all-weather service to users to meet their driving needs; Revitalize the stock of assets and do a good job in the development and operation of service areas and other ancillary facilities. (Workers are maintaining the pavement on Weilai expressway)
expressway should also be marketed and developed
In the long run, the main business of expressway enterprises, that is, toll collection, is limited, and enterprises beyond the time limit stipulated by the state will no longer be able to collect tolls. Therefore, in order to maintain a good operating income and provide more comprehensive services for users, expressway must change the single income source. It is understood that high-speed companies have established two new concepts, one is marketing, and the other is development.
The construction of expressway in Shandong Province basically relies on loans, and it takes the road of "charging for repayment". Therefore, since its establishment, high-speed companies have been under heavy debt pressure of repaying loans and paying interest. To this end, the company proposed that the concept of marketing should be introduced into the management of expressway. They set up tourism and logistics companies successively, and the tourism companies made full use of the expressway network in the whole province to connect the tourist spots in the whole province and even in East China. Logistics companies should take advantage of expressway's speed and smoothness, speed up the construction of a distribution system and logistics platform based on expressway, and form a modern logistics center in expressway integrating warehousing, packaging, transportation and distribution as soon as possible. Diversified management and multi-industry and multi-pillar development will be the new development direction of expressway after its rapid construction in recent years.
"One Card" for all traffic monitoring and charging
expressway is a symbol of modernization, and its operation and management must also reflect the characteristics of informationization and science and technology. Expressway's informatization construction has attracted people's attention.
The expressway monitoring system, which was recently built and put into use, has provided a clairvoyance for the expressway. It is reported that by the end of this year, Shandong Province will build a complete monitoring system on nearly two-thirds of the completed expressway. Standing in the monitoring room of Shandong Expressway Information Management Center, through the large and small screens, the road conditions thousands of miles away are like watching TV. This system will provide specific road information for passing vehicles and make them run more smoothly.
According to the relevant person of Shandong Expressway Information Management Center, through this system, the information center can summarize the traffic flow, speed, weather, construction and accidents at each moment. This not only provides management information for the management department, but more importantly, it can provide service information for every car on the road or ready to go on the road. Its information dissemination channels can be radio and other media, as well as variable bulletin boards controlled by the center on both sides of the road. At present, this kind of monitoring system has only been built in expressway, such as Jiqing. By the end of this year, this system will be built on the 1,581-kilometer section, and will be gradually built on all expressway in the future.
Recently, drivers driving in expressway from Jinan to Qingdao will find that a new type of automatic toll collection system is gradually replacing the traditional manual toll collection mode. Vehicles passing through these expressway sections only need to get a toll card at the entrance of expressway, and then pay the toll through the networked microcomputer when they get off the expressway. It is reported that the first-phase project of expressway Information Management System, with a total length of 1,581 kilometers, will be networked by the end of this year. At that time, drivers on the road will use contactless IC cards as their passes to realize a "one-card" toll collection in the networked road area. In addition, the design and development of the system also considers the application of stored value cards, which can achieve "one card for multiple purposes". The person in charge of Jinan Management Office of Shandong Jiqing expressway said: At present, the time we require toll collectors to handle the payment formalities for each passing driver is no more than 1.6 seconds, and the time will be greatly shortened after the "one-card" toll collection is realized in expressway.
expressway has brought unprecedented convenience and speed to our life. With the further improvement and deepening of its operation and management, it will bring more and better benefits into play, and the quality of the "half-day life circle" will be greatly improved.