I. Background and Data Value
1. Industry Trend: The focus of highway safety management is changing from a passive to an active one broadly. Existing small-scale data of a traditional kind are insufficient for today's requirements. Besides, ETC gantries as a full-scale sensing system are not only available for networked toll collection but also for road network monitoring, vehicle management and control as well as toll evasion inspection;
2. Data Foundation: As of the end of 2019, China has the longest highway network in the world with a total length of 147,600 kilometers. After the removal of provincial toll stations, a total of 24,588 sets of ETC gantry systems have been installed, which is the largest number worldwide, thus creating a good basis for information-based management and deep application;
3. Data Types: Gantry transaction data (including vehicle entry point, time, vehicle type, etc.), captured image data, and license plate recognition log data. With the help of these data, driving behavior indicators such as travel time and speed can be derived, and the data can be divided into three groups: basic traffic, safety, and external sharing.
II. Innovation and Practice of Intelligent Applications
1. Technological Solution: The main theme is to give power to the analysis of traffic flow, road network status monitoring, toll inspection, and management-specific analysis through the use of technology. Besides, non-toll values of gantry data can be unlocked by putting these devices to other uses. In addition, data and hardware can serve as a bridge between road network monitoring, driving behavior supervision, and other scenarios;
2. Accurate Traffic Flow Analysis: By using ETC toll data, a road section traffic flow and the types of vehicles can be deduced. Such information is useful for urban development planning, traffic management, and drafting of the differential toll schemes;
3. Road Network Operation Status Sensing: The difference in passing time of vehicles at upstream and downstream gantries during normal and abnormal periods is used, and algorithms are combined to determine the traffic operation status. This method can find out more exact details about the abnormals at a lower cost than the traditional video data;
4. Toll Inspection and Management: The fusion of data from ETC gantries, toll station entrances/exits, and license plate recognition systems empowers managers to get the picture of toll evasion quickly; business personnel can get the trajectories of vehicles through license plate numbers; besides, AI models can be instrumental in verification and work supervision to bring about efficiency enhancement;
5. Expressway Management-Specific Analysis: By combining toll data, overload control data, and other data sources, specific analysis models can be generated, which may include the influence of maintenance construction, the regional freight volume, and traffic flow pressure at toll stations.
III. Practice of the "128" Architecture
1. "One Center" (Data Exchange and Sharing Center): Freeing data from different information systems silos, allowing data exchange and sharing between systems, and thus data value enhancement to the maximum;
2. "Two Platforms":
Safety Management Platform: A platform that meets the requirements of safety management and control on expressways and facilitates the implementation of "two types of passenger vehicles and one type of hazardous goods vehicle" (i.e. vehicles carrying groups of passengers, long-distance passenger vehicles, and hazardous goods vehicles) management and control, accident-causing vehicle screening, control measure evaluation, and road congestion prediction;
Operation Management Platform: A platform that supports the daily operational activities of the organization by providing functions such as system operation monitoring, toll verification assistance, toll data analysis, and equipment management;
3. "Eight Applications": Automobile types regulation, accident-causing vehicle identification, control measure assessment, congestion prediction, system monitoring, toll verification, data analysis, and equipment management are some of the modules encompassed by the phrase.
FAQ
1. When and where will the Expo be held?
The worldwide expo is scheduled to be at the XICEC in Xiamen, China, from 13th to 15th May 2026.
2. What is the exhibition scale?
The exhibition is planned to cover an area of 40,000 sqm. The event will be the main stage for over 350 companies; in this way, 30,000+ professional visitors are being foreseen to come from all the continents of the world.
3. What activities are included?
There will be more than 80 professional forums and events to debate the topics of intelligent mobility, communication in transport, safety, and environmental protection.
4. How many countries and regions are involved?
This event is a future of smart transport technology plattform, and it will hold the torch for more than 80 countries and regions worldwide.
5. Are there cooperation opportunities?
Yes, certainly. The Expo, with its network of over 1,000 partners worldwide, is the place from which a plethora of business collaboration, technology exchange, and investment opportunities are emerging.
6. Who can I contact for details?
In case you are searching for further information, you should communicate with the Organizing Committee. You can find their contact details on the official website Contact Us section.
