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Agency wants cashless toll payments

The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) has asked the Ministry of Transport for permission to test cashless toll collection on one-stop toll highways.
Agency wants cashless toll payments ảnh 1A toll station on the Hanoi –Hai Phong expressway. (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) has asked theMinistry of Transport for permission to test cashless toll collection onone-stop toll highways.

Ina document sent to the ministry, the DRVN said that there were more than 100fee collection stations in the country. Of which, 86 were under the ministry’smanagement and 15 were under local authorities’ management.

Currently,the ministry has applied electronic fee collections for 37 tolls along theNational Highway No1A and Ho Chi Minh Highway.

Anelectronic toll collection station determined whether vehicles are enrolled inthe programme, alerted toll collectors about those that were not, andelectronically debits the accounts of registered car owners without requiringthem to stop.

Vehicleswould be equipped with a tag on the windshield with information to be read bythe station’s sensor. Those without the tag would have to stop and paymanually.

Theministry plans to replace toll booth operators with electronic collectionsystems. The move aims to reduce traffic jams and delays at toll gates and cutcosts.

Accordingto the ministry, in many countries, electronic fee tolls and manual fee tollsare used on the same highway.

Itsaid vehicles would pay via prepaid Card of State-owned VietinBank.

VietinBankwould be assigned to install the pre-paid card system as a trial on one-stoptoll highways. The model will be implemented from now on until the end of thisyear.

NationalHighway No1A connects Lang Son and Ca Mau, running more than 2,300km through 32cities and provinces, while the Ho Chi Minh Highway runs along the west of thecountry, connecting Cao Bang and Ca Mau via the Central Highlands with a totallength of 3,167km./.
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