**Full use of ETC before the end of the year

From July 1st this year, garrison vehicles in Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Fujian will fully implement the commissioning of ETC technology for military vehicles, and will implement nationwide networking before the end of the year. Feng Zhenglin, Vice Minister of Transport, and Jiang Ruigang, Deputy Minister of Military Transportation, General Logistics Department, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.

Feng Zhenglin pointed out that the use of ETCs by military vehicles can effectively increase the traffic efficiency of military vehicles, further increase the capacity of toll stations, effectively prevent counterfeit military vehicles, and further maintain the orderly operation of highway traffic. It is necessary to actively and steadily promote the installation and use of ETC for military vehicles throughout the country in accordance with the overall thinking of overall planning, pilot operation, and gradual progress.

Feng Zhenglin emphasized that all local transportation departments should establish coordination mechanisms for the use of military vehicles with counterparts in the military regions of the counterparts, do a good job of inter-provincial communication and coordination, and advance the preparatory work for trial operations. Problems must be reported during trial operations. , To grasp the progress in a timely manner; to increase ETC construction efforts, strive to achieve the use of ETC national network access for military vehicles during the year; to invest in lean talents, to speed up the development of relevant standards and specifications at the same time to do a good job of technical services and support work, do a good job of technical support; It is necessary to step up the system construction and establish a long-term operating mechanism.

Jiang Ruigang said that in combination with the "2012" military vehicle number plate replacement, military vehicles use ETC technology to be implemented in three steps. The first step, from May 1st onwards, the Beijing Regional Forces opened trial ETC technology, which is currently in good operation; the second step, starting July 1, Tianjin and other 10 provinces (cities) opened trial ETC technology; the third step, the end of the year In the past, garrisons across the country (municipalities) opened trial ETCs.

At the meeting, relevant comrades of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission introduced the use of ETC technology in military vehicles in Beijing. It is understood that the use of ETC technology by military vehicles can greatly increase the utilization rate of existing ETC lanes. Toll collection stations will no longer need to set up military vehicle-specific passages to reduce the occupation of resources for manual toll lanes and meet the needs of the public at large. Effectively prevent fake military vehicles.