Hebei Expressway ETC lane increased to 112 during the year

This year, Hebei Province will focus on intelligent transportation, accelerate the development of intelligent and information-based expressways, and establish 53 highway toll-free (ETC) lanes. This reporter learned from the work conference of the Hebei Expressway Administration held on February 2.

This year, the Hebei Senior Management Bureau will focus on the construction of projects to solve the problems that restrict the development of expressways, such as difficult fund collection, difficult construction project approval, and land indicators, balance of compensation, and difficulties in solving environmental problems along the route. It is planned to complete a construction investment of 30.6 billion yuan. The investment in conservation was 2.04 billion yuan. By increasing hardware investment, strengthening station outlets, adopting double-fare methods, etc., efforts will be made to solve the problem of increasing the capacity of existing expressways and improving traffic capacity; 53 ETC lanes will be added to the Beijing-Kazakhstan, Daguang-Guangzhou Expressway and the Huangshi Expressway. Including the 59 previously built, the highway expressway ETC lane will increase to 112 in the year.

The Hebei Provincial Expressway Administration has this year as the “Startup Year for Science and Technology Innovation”, and actively accelerates the promotion of highway construction, management, and service levels by actively learning new concepts, technologies, and new achievements in the introduction of highway construction management at home and abroad. Specifically, it includes the completion of the reconstruction and expansion project of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway Hebei section, the first to establish a domestically-leading and internationally-advanced typical intelligent traffic model road, and the completion of the intelligent and information-based reconstruction of the Huanghe Expressway in the Hebei section of Jingha and Daguang expressways; The two-tier traffic information service system at the road section, and speeding up the application of various payment methods such as mobile payment, online banking, and online transfer, and improving the efficiency of vehicle traffic; building an emergency highway command and dispatch system in the province, and building a highway data center system.