Discussion on the integration of ETC and license plate recognition with no sense payment

Non-inductive payment is a new term created by third-party payment in the past two years. It means that when you pay a certain fee, you can complete the purchase without any process on the payment. In the transportation field, in the daily high-frequency scenes such as bus, network travel, parking, highway tolls, etc., mobile payment has been infiltrated, especially in the network, as long as the user opens a small-scale payment, it can also achieve non-inductive payment. And because of the special nature of the scene, the non-sense payment is currently impossible, and the third-party payment must be completed by scanning code or contact. The most popular speculation, but the slowest progress in road tolls and parking charges, the popularity of third-party non-sense payments is not so easy. In fact, ETC is also a kind of non-inductive payment. It does not require the owner to have any payment operation through the toll booth. It only needs to be inductively recognized, but why is the ETC not called non-inductive payment, maybe it should be issued with the offline, Installation and recharge are not convenient, but this situation has been greatly improved.

Feelless payment

At present, provinces such as Shandong, Henan and Guangdong have launched shou machine payment services such as Wechat, Alipay and UnionPay “Cloud Flash Pay”, and some places have also conducted “no-feeling payment” pilots. The largest one should be Shandong. The two highway operators in the province, Qilu Transportation Group and Shandong Expressway Group, are promoting the development of non-inductive payment. As of March, more than 320 toll stations in Shandong Province can achieve non-inductive payment. Among them, Shandong Express Group's APP supports Alipay, Wechat and 15 banks' cards, while Qilu Transportation Group's APP only supports pre-charge and Wechat payment. . Guangdong's non-inductive payment is currently only implemented in a few toll stations. Although it is based on license plate recognition, it still needs to import the card, and the card is handed out. It is only the link that pays less, and it does not affect the payment in Guangdong Province. The company is a joint electric service, and is promoted by the leading Yuetong Card ETC, and belongs to the same group. In addition, some toll stations in Henan, Shanxi, and Zhejiang also have unpaid payments for highway tolls that open Alipay, but they are not networked.

In addition, the highways in most provinces have opened scan code payment, just like the card payment process, but only when they pay last time, they can choose to pay in cash.

On May 24, the Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference in May. In response to the “non-feeling payment” highway toll related issues, the Ministry of Transport spokesperson Wu Chungen clearly stated that the shou machine payment is a favorable supplement to the highway network toll collection ETC system, and the Ministry of Transport has a positive attitude towards this.

Wu Chungeng said that this is an exploration to adapt to the individual needs of users. "We have a positive and encouraging attitude. These attempts have enriched the charging methods, complied with the payment habits of different users, and improved the level of road service facilitation. The new generation of information technology and the deep integration and innovation of toll road operations have been actively explored.” He also admitted that most of these payment methods are still in the small-scale testing stage, which needs further improvement.

However, in 2017, several provinces have plans to open a highway toll payment without feeling payment. The main implementation method is license plate recognition + APP. For more than a year, the Hunan project, which had been highly anticipated, was suspended, and then the scan code payment was selected. Shanxi also conducted the feasibility study and investment estimation of the “Shanxi Expressway Networked Toll License Plate Recognition System Project” in 2017. It is planned to implement the transformation of 2000 lanes. However, as of now, there is no further news. Shanxi Traffic Control Group is also implementing scanning code payment. In addition, in April 2018, Jilin Province also tested the non-inductive payment based on license plate recognition, and it should still be in the testing stage. Although there are many provinces to visit in Shandong, the provinces and highway operators that have further actions have basically not seen, even if they are, still under the water. It can be said that the application of non-inductive payment in highway toll collection is not optimistic at this stage.

ETC

At the same time, the development of China's expressway ETC has entered a mature stage. According to the data released by the Ministry of Transport at the end of 2017, there are more than 59 million ETC users nationwide, and by now it has definitely exceeded 60 million; according to the Road Network Monitoring and Emergency Response Center of the Ministry of Transport Director Wang Gang revealed at the China Intelligent Transportation Annual Conference at the end of November 2017 that as of November 2017, there were 18,100 ETC lanes in China, and ETC payments accounted for more than 30% of the total number of payments. In recent years, the number of ETC users nationwide The monthly growth is about 120~1.5 million.

In addition, a major advantage for transport companies to use ETC is that from January 1 this year, the national toll road tolls VAT electronic invoices will be officially launched, and the tolls paid by ETC cards or user cards in the future, as well as ETC card recharge fees. It can issue electronic tolls for tolls, no longer issue paper tickets, and be unified nationwide. VAT invoices can be used to deduct corporate inputs and reduce the cost of transportation enterprises.

ETC's National Settlement Bank is China Postal Savings Bank, but each province has its own independent operating entities, and the provinces have different levels of providing ETC services. More traditional is to sign a cooperation agreement with the bank, the bank issued ETC joint xin card or chu card, the bank provides ETC label free of charge. Some banks promote their own apps. After binding ETC, cloud recharge can be realized, that is, online recharge. Some provinces, in cooperation with Alipay and Wechat, can issue cards in the air, that is, Wechat, Alipay users, through the Wechat apple program Wechat ETC, Alipay city service "high-speed vertical and horizontal", upload license plates, Shen documents and other information, you can apply for ETC, The card issuer then mails it to the owner. Of course, these ETCs handled through Wechat and Alipay can naturally achieve online pre-charge through Alipay and Wechat.

In order to improve the traffic efficiency of ETC vehicles, Guangdong United Electric Co., Ltd. announced that the "Embarked ETC Free Flow Charging" technology has passed the expert certification, and has been piloted for a long time at three or four highway toll stations, and will be promoted at important sites in the Pearl River Delta.

The implementation of this technology is to set up the gantry ETC reading and writing equipment on the ramp of the highway toll station, and advance the ETC charge to the ramp, which is equivalent to presetting a barrier-free ETC trading lane. If the charging is successful, the ETC owner can choose Any lane passes, including a manual toll lane. This design has no effect on the operation of the ETC owner. When the traffic is large, the number of vehicles, whether it is manual or ETC lane, will not be less. After the ETC pre-transaction, the owner will not choose the manual lane, unless it is queued. All are ETC vehicles, otherwise there is a car that pays by manual payment or scan code, and the speed must be slower than the ETC lane. According to the joint electric service, this technology can increase the ETC lane passing efficiency theory by more than three times. After the Wechat public number of China Expressway pushed the technology, some questions and suggestions were put forward for the technology. First, it was considered that it was set up in the ramp, which was somewhat difficult for maintenance and operation. Second, it was believed that ETC owners might happen. In order to complete the charge on the ramp, it is intended to slow down the speed near the ramp, but it will cause congestion. Third, it is considered that after the pre-charge of the ramp, the toll station will also decide to charge the charge, and then lift the pole, and then follow the toll booth. What is the difference between installing an ETC? "But it is undeniable that the ETC industry has made a lot of innovations in promoting ETC technology and innovation in this charging model, including expanding into fueling, auto finance and other scenarios.

Fusion

Is the competition between non-inductive payment and ETC based on license plate recognition your life and death? Some self-medias often make some horrifying titles in order to catch people's attention. They are “abandoned by the times, epoch-making, burial...”, etc. For ETC, a national networking project that reflects the will of the country, it is easy to be covered by dian. Isn't human effort in vain? The initial investment is huge, the industry has a great impact, and ETC technology is not a backward and outdated technology. The ETC's improvement in card issuance, recharge, and value-added services has proved the openness and space of the technology. As mentioned above, ETC is actually a non-inductive payment method. In the scene passing through the toll booth, it is absolutely non-inductive payment. Based on the license plate recognition, the non-inductive payment and the ETC non-inductive payment, can there be some integration?

ETC users are growing steadily, and users of Alipay, Wechat payment and other apps are more correct. It is also true that the two are constantly working together. Therefore, in the next 5 to 10 years, the two will be opportunities for cooperation and win-win. According to ITS114, it is now decided to support the further development of ETC. After ETC is fully capable of countering the non-inductive payment based on license plate recognition. It is possible to popularize the non-inductive payment based on license plate recognition.

So at this stage, in addition to card issuance and pre-charge, can the two cooperate? ITS114 and Dr. Qiao Chuanlong from the Information Center of the Hunan Provincial Communications Department have discussed this topic two or three times and have an immature idea.

Now ETC is not only a payment method, but also a vehicle detection and identification technology. We often equate ETC with detection identification + charging. If we use ETC as an online payment account only? The license plate recognition technology is very mature and widely used. Traffic management, parking management, customs logistics park, etc., can realize vehicle identification without the need of vehicle media. It is the most widely used vehicle detection technology. The reason why it can be used for parking non-inductive payment and highway toll payment is not only because of the development of mobile payment, but also because of the perfection of license plate recognition technology.

ETC is not only a vehicle identification technology, but also a payment method. If ETC is only used as a payment method, it will be opened to parking, and the license-free charging based on license plate recognition will be charged. That is to say, ETC can realize the non-inductive payment passage in the ETC lane, and can also realize the non-inductive passage in the lane based on the license plate recognition charge. The license plate recognition confirms the identity after identifying the license plate, and deducts the ETC account online, and the two lanes Can achieve non-inductive payment. The advantage of this mode is that even if the ETC owner enters the wrong lane, he does not need to exit to take the ETC lane. In the toll booth without the ETC lane, the ETC deduction can also be realized.

In addition, if ETC is used as a payment account, and Alipay and Wechat payment are the same, then entering the city parking lot is also very promising, and there is no need to carry out ETC transformation of the parking lot, which is the most difficult reason for ETC to enter the city parking lot. Because the cost is relatively high. In the future, there will be more than 100 million ETC users. If ETC can be directly used for parking payment, it is much higher than the payment frequency of expressways, which will greatly expand the number of transactions and transaction flow of ETC, and enhance the user's stickiness of ETC, and consolidate ETC. The mass base of the system.

However, the problem encountered is that ETC's operating entities in the provinces are scattered, and the coordination ETC is used as a payment account for parking and parking license-based road tolls, which is only possible at the level of the Ministry of Transportation and even the ministries.

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