If the installation is not completed, the toll collection will not be stopped before June 2022
Accordingly, Minister Nguyen Van The requested the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam to work with each locality and each BOT investor to agree on a plan to install the remaining automatic toll lanes at all toll stations. and completed in June 2022.
In addition, the Minister directed the General Department of Roads to review contract regulations, legal regulations, and promptly consider stopping toll collection for toll stations managed by the Ministry of Transport that did not complete the installation on schedule. system.
In addition, the Directorate for Roads will review the overall implementation plan, develop scenarios that may arise and handle solutions, ensuring the successful pilot implementation of toll collection in the electronic form without stopping. for all lanes on the Hanoi – Hai Phong expressway in June 2022.
For ETC service providers, Minister Nguyen Van The requested the unit to coordinate with the Directorate for Roads, localities and BOT investors to complete the installation of the remaining toll lanes and pilot the collection. Tolls do not stop at the Hanoi – Hai Phong expressway to ensure synchronization and interconnection. In addition, reviewing the process of coordinating, gluing, connecting and operating the two systems to have a solution to promptly handle the limitations between the two systems in the past time.
Regarding the progress of implementing the non-stop automatic toll collection system, the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam said that up to now, 113 toll stations nationwide have put the ETC collection system into operation. In which, the Ministry of Transport manages 69 stations, the locality manages 44 stations. This agency is also urging BOT investors and localities to install 48 ETC lanes in stations managed by the Ministry of Transport and 52 ETC lanes in stations managed by localities.
For the pilot implementation of non-stop toll collection at the Hanoi – Hai Phong expressway, thanks to the promotion of propaganda, the percentage of vehicles with tags in the provinces and cities passing through the expressway reached an average of 65 %, an increase of about 10% over the previous month. The percentage of vehicles using the ETC toll service on the route reached 50% of the total vehicle traffic, an increase of about 5% compared to the previous month.
As for the Vietnam Expressway Development Investment Corporation (VEC), Minister Nguyen Van The requested VEC to urgently comply with the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh in Document No. 2173 dated 8/08. April 2022 in accelerating the implementation of the electronic non-stop toll collection (ETC) system at expressway projects managed by VEC.
By June 30, 2022, if the implementation does not meet the schedule, the Ministry of Transport will report to the competent authority to take measures to handle the responsibility of the individuals and groups concerned if the system is delayed. collect ETC fees.
It is known that the Vietnam Expressway Development Investment Corporation was assigned by the Ministry of Transport to be the investor in the construction, management, operation and exploitation of 5 highway projects, including the Cau Gie – Ninh Binh and Noi expressway Bai – Lao Cai, Da Nang – Quang Ngai, Ben Luc – Long Thanh and HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay.
However, up to now, only the Cau Gie – Ninh Binh expressway has invested and operated the ETC toll collection system (15/40 lanes) from June 10, 2020. Other expressways still deploy toll collection in the form of one stop.
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