The license plate pays with the car electronic logo and then talks about the highway mobile payment.

First of all, look at ETC. The Ministry of Transport's Road Network Center has released some data recently: As of the end of June 2018, there are 8815 toll stations, 17744 ETC lanes, 58075 MTC lanes and 2770 mixed lanes in 29 connected provinces nationwide. . There are about 66.53 million ETC users, including 6.204 million bus users, accounting for 93.25% of ETC users, and 4.48 million truck users, accounting for 6.75% of total users.

In this data, one point worth noting is that there are less than 5 million truck users, which means that at least 10 million trucks do not have ETC installed, and they are the most frequently used group on the highway. What are the reasons why they did not use ETC? It is a low level of education. It is not acceptable for ETC. Does it feel that the installation is time-consuming and laborious, or is it too expensive? Is it troublesome to handle the joint card?

If they don't want to use ETC, will they pay with scan code? Will I pay with a license plate? What is the popularity of their Alipay and WeChat payments?

The second is the license plate payment. Two recent provincial highway mobile payment project published successful results, first, second tender of Hunan highway toll payment system mobile phone PPP project, Hunan Province Communications Industry Services Limited / Merchants Road Network Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (Hunan Provincial Expressway Construction and Development Corporation's shareholding ratio: 30%) won the bid, but the tender did not emphasize whether mobile payment was based on license plate recognition, and now many toll stations in Hunan have adopted the owner's scan code payment. Ways to achieve mobile payments, but presumably license plate payment is also one of the priorities of Hunan.

The second is the operation cooperation service project of expressway mobile payment system in Guizhou Province. Century Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. won the bid and there is no winning bid. The construction contents include: construction of provincial mobile payment platform (including hardware and software) (including related docking work), construction of mobile payment transmission channel, completion of docking and transformation with existing systems, and opening section of the province and contract period The construction of the MTC exit lane scanning code terminal of the expressway, the information security construction of the mobile payment system, the pilot construction of the mobile payment system based on the license plate recognition system, the pilot construction based on the unmanned self-service charging system; the operation service content is the operation and maintenance service system construction, Mobile payment system operation, maintenance, customer service, mobile payment system value-added services. It can be seen that mobile payment based on license plate recognition is one of the contents of the project, but it is only a pilot.

In addition, on July 27, Gansu Provincial Expressway said that at the end of September, the Gansu Provincial Expressway Administration Department will cooperate with Tencent in the estuary at the economic operation analysis of the Gansu Expressway Management System in the first half of 2018 and the key work promotion meeting in the second half of the year. Toll station pilot “no-feeling payment” new technology, and strive to achieve manual charging, ETC charging, mobile payment, “no-feeling payment” and other “four-horse driving” to provide a more abundant payment method for the public before the end of the year. And a more convenient payment experience.

Coincidentally, the semi-annual work conference of Henan transportation industry revealed that Henan highway tolls have fully covered mobile payment, and will accelerate the highway toll scanning code and license plate payment in the second half of the year.

It can be seen from this information that there are always provinces joining the ranks of license plate payment pilots, but no province has said that it is necessary to pay for license plates. There are many reasons for this. The maturity of technology and the impact on the current ETC should be Two main points of consideration. Ali and Tencent are the two most important third parties to promote the payment of highway license plates. UnionPay is currently paying more attention to parking payments and bus payments. Tencent's license plate payment has already been settled. The 92 exit lanes of 17 toll stations of Guangzhou Airport Expressway have been on the line to pay for the license plate, becoming the first full-coverage highway in Guangdong Province.

In fact, the future highway mobile payment must support multiple payment methods, that is, “aggregate payment”. Whether it is UnionPay, Alipay, Tencent, Jingdong, etc., it is only one payment method. More importantly, who To be the technical support party and clearing settlement agency behind the aggregation payment.

The most important thing is to put it later. License plate payment is not a new concept, new technology, ETC industry believes that the impact of license plate payment on ETC is within the controllable range, but we have heard on several occasions that the electronic signage of motor vehicles is applied to highway tolls. Management concerns.

We know that for highway management, there is a relatively large policy this year. According to the State Council executive meeting, it will promote the cancellation of highway toll stations. In order to solve the traffic jam phenomenon that is easy to occur at provincial toll highway toll stations, thereby reducing logistics costs and improving logistics efficiency. According to the plan, the work of canceling the provincial toll gates of highways is mainly to use new information technologies such as highway electronic toll collection (ETC) instead of manual charging to further improve vehicle traffic efficiency and reduce logistics costs. .

The cancellation of highway toll gates will not result in the loss of tolls, but only to do more work on ambiguous path identification. What is the problem with canceling the highway toll gates? The biggest problem may be how a province defines the traffic flow, vehicle type, license plate information, etc. entering the highways in the province, which brings certain problems to the highway traffic management, because before the provincial toll stations are cancelled, these Information can be obtained through provincial toll stations. Once in and out, there are information records. Whether it is cash payment or ETC, or third-party payment, information will be left at the toll booth.

Of course, the solution is also to set up a video traffic collection device at the entrance and exit of the original provincial toll station, just like the public security traffic inspection system, and to take pictures to obtain this information. However, we know that video equipment is greatly affected by the light environment. At the same time, there are problems with high-speed driving and vehicle capturing with too small vehicle spacing. If only traffic is collected, then one or two or even higher errors are Acceptable, but as a basis for other management, then other management tools are needed.

For some reason, ETC has to be read at a low to medium speed. This is not very advantageous for ETC to use for traffic collection without a toll booth. Therefore, motor vehicle electronic identification is a more effective means of technical management.

Of course, these are just the rough analysis of ITS114. Specifically, we have to test and verify it in the field. So we have seen a bidding information. Fujian Expressway Information Technology Co., Ltd. has released a highway toll and road network based on the automobile electronic identification. The project information of the monitoring system project labor inquiry is mainly on the gantry frame of the two-way information board of the Shuihai-Luoyuan main line of Shenhai Expressway, the oil truck ridge of the main line of Ningdong Expressway, and the information gantry of the Shishishan tunnel. A total of eight identification points, such as the station and the ETC lane of the Ningde South toll station, are installed with automotive electronic identification equipment. The installation of readers and antennas is 25 sets. From the project information analysis, Fujian Expressway Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujian Expressway Co., Ltd., the installation site includes gantry and toll station, the purpose should be pilot vehicle electronic identification in highway tolls and high-speed The function and role of highway flow detection.

In addition, ITS114 was informed that there are other provinces in China that are working on the application of automotive electronic identification to highway toll collection and road network monitoring. It is still impossible to predict the future development path and business model of automotive electronic signage for expressway tolls. It is the government’s mandatory requirement for all vehicles to be installed, or the use of subsidies to encourage installation, financial subsidies to encourage installation, etc. Unknown, of course, the premise is that automotive electronic identification can be effectively used for highway tolls and road network monitoring.

Automotive electronic identification applications, in the future must also be composite, shared, like Tianjin, Dongying and other places, traffic, traffic police, security, etc., using a set of automotive electronic identification system to achieve different management purposes. So who is leading and promoting the application of automotive electronic identification in highway tolls is an interesting question.