ETC system to be installed in all expressway lanes by July 31: Minister
The installation of electronic toll collection (ETC) system in all lanes of BOT expressways will be completed by July 31 following a direction from the Prime Minister, said Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The while answering legislators’ queries on June 9 as part of the 15th National Assembly’s third session.
Hanoi (VNA) – The installation of electronictoll collection (ETC) system in all lanes of BOT expressways will be completed byJuly 31 following a direction from the Prime Minister, said Minister ofTransport Nguyen Van The while answering legislators’ queries on June 9 as partof the 15th National Assembly’s third session.
The minister said that ETC is a newtechnology that is expected to make travel activities and fee paymentof people easier and more transparent.
The technology has been applied in Vietnamsince 2015, however, the implementation process has faced a lot of difficulties.
Under a recent direction by the PrimeMinister, by June 30, 2022, all build-operate-transfer (BOT) expressways, except for those operatedby the VEC, must have ETC system, and the system must be installed in all lanes byJuly 31, The stressed.
Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The (Photo: VNA)
In order to complete the tasks, The said that the ministry has successfullypiloted the ETC system on the Hanoi-Hai Phong Expressway, whilestrengthening communications to encourage drivers to use ETC services.
Earlier at a working session with theMinistry of Transport, Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh requested theministry to become determined to implement the scheme by all means and not tomake it late.
After July 31, projects that failed to complete ETC installation must leave theirtoll collection stations open free for all vehicles, while individuals andcollectives responsible for any stagnation will be punished, he stressed.
Since October 2021, great progress has beenseen in the electronic toll collection, with 2 million additional vehiclesusing ETC services, raising the ratio of vehicles tagged with ETC cards to over60 percent./.
The Ministry of Transport plans to install e-tags on 3.2 million motorised vehicles by the year-end in a bid to conduct electronic toll collection (ETC) at build-operate-transfer (BOT) stations in 2019.
Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has affirmed that investors in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts will have to stop collecting fees if they don’t install electronic toll collection (ETC) systems by the end of this year.
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Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The (Photo: VNA) 
