The Chinese translation of ETC means Electronic Toll Collection, and its English full name is electronic toll collection, which is automatic toll collection for expressway or bridges. It is one of the service functions of intelligent transportation system, and it is especially suitable for use in expressway or in the bridge and tunnel environment with heavy traffic.
It mainly uses the special short-range communication between the vehicle-mounted 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 carry out background settlement with the bank, so as to achieve the purpose that the vehicle can pay the expressway or bridge fee without stopping at the expressway or bridge toll station.
Technical characteristics of ETC:
1, non-stop toll collection technology is especially suitable for expressway or bridge and tunnel environment with heavy traffic.
2. The non-stop toll collection system under traditional lane isolation measures is usually called one-lane non-stop toll collection system, and the non-stop toll collection system under free traffic flow without lane isolation is usually called free flow non-stop toll collection system.
3, the implementation of non-stop charging can allow vehicles to pass at high speed (tens of kilometers or even 100 kilometers), so the traffic capacity of highways can be greatly improved.
4. Electronic toll collection can reduce the cost of toll collection management and improve the operating efficiency of vehicles; At the same time, it can also greatly reduce the noise level and exhaust emission of the toll gate.