Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 7th Title: Ensuring Fair and Reasonable Charges —— The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport responded to the adjustment of freight car toll charging method and vehicle classification.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Yukun
According to the "Implementation Plan for Deepening the Reform of Toll Road System and Cancelling Provincial Toll Stations of Expressway" issued by the General Office of the State Council, from January 1, 2020, trucks will be uniformly charged vehicle tolls by vehicle (axle) type.
Why should we adjust the charging method? What changes have been made to the new vehicle classification standard? How to ensure that the charges are fair and reasonable? Wu Dejin, director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, responded to this on the 7th.
Charging by car (axle) is intended to improve the transportation efficiency of trucks.
It is one of the tasks to cancel the provincial toll station of expressway to adjust the toll charging method and vehicle classification standard.
Wu Dejin said that at present, China’s expressways generally implement truck toll by weight, mainly to avoid the "big tons and small standards" of vehicles, and to curb overloading by economic means. However, due to the need to stop and weigh by weight, the traffic efficiency of toll stations and the promotion of truck ETC have been affected to some extent.
"With the continuous and in-depth promotion of overload control in China, serious illegal overloading of expressways has been effectively curbed. Under this circumstance, adjusting the charging method of trucks from weight-based charging to car (axle) charging is conducive to the installation and use of ETC for trucks, achieving fast traffic without stopping, and promoting the speed and efficiency of the logistics industry. " Wu Dejin said.
Is it fair to charge according to vehicle (axle) type for vehicles with different loading conditions? Wu Dejin said that it is a common practice in the world to charge trucks according to their axle type. On the premise of legal loading, trucks of the same axle, no matter how much they carry, occupy the same highway resources. It is scientific, fair and reasonable to collect tolls according to unified standards, which is conducive to promoting the intensive operation of highway freight industry and improving the actual load rate and transportation efficiency of highway transportation.
How to strengthen the overload management and ensure the safety of people and highway infrastructure after the freight car is changed to the car (axle) type?
Wu Dejin said that from January 1, 2020, all closed highway toll stations across the country will fully implement the weighing inspection of freight vehicles without stopping at the entrance, and completely prohibit illegal, overloaded and overloaded vehicles from entering the expressway to protect people’s lives and property and the safety of highway infrastructure.
Constructing a fair and reasonable charging system
At the beginning of June, the Ministry of Transport issued the revised transportation industry standard "Classification of Toll Vehicles on Toll Roads", which clarified that the classification limit value of Class 1 and Class 2 passenger cars was revised from the approved number of 7 passengers to 9 passengers and the vehicle length was less than 6 meters, and the category of special work vehicles was added. At the same time, it was clarified that trucks were classified according to the total axle number, vehicle length and total mass.
"After the implementation of the Classification of Toll Vehicles on Toll Roads, the toll charging standards for all buses do not need to be adjusted." Wu Dejin said that the revision of the standard is intended to further unify, standardize and improve the classification of toll road vehicles nationwide, promote the construction of a fair and reasonable toll road rate system, and improve traffic efficiency and toll road service level.
According to reports, for 8-seat and 9-seat minibuses with a length of less than 6 meters, vehicle tolls continue to be collected according to the existing vehicle classification standards; From January 1, 2020, the vehicle tolls will be collected uniformly according to Class 1 passenger cars, which is lower than the original charging standard.
"Existing ETC users who have changed their vehicle classification will carry out targeted services, replace ETC in-vehicle devices or adjust vehicle classification through directional notification and appointment installation." Wu Dejin said.
Wu Dejin said that at present, the toll collection systems and toll lanes are being upgraded in various places, and the toll collection standards for trucks are re-calculated according to the prescribed procedures, which will be uniformly implemented nationwide from January 1, 2020.
Ensure that the overall burden of truck tolls is not increased.
Wu Dejin said that to adjust the toll charging method and vehicle classification standards, it is necessary to ensure that the overall burden of truck tolls will not be increased under the same traffic flow conditions, and that the toll payable for each type of toll vehicle in the standard loading state is not greater than the toll payable for the original toll collection.
According to the notice jointly issued by the Ministry of Transport and other three departments recently on doing a good job in the adjustment of freight car toll charging methods, it is clear that for freight cars with more than six axles, on the basis of the charging coefficient of freight cars with six axles, a reasonable charging coefficient should be formulated by increasing a certain charging coefficient for each axle, so as to ensure that large transport vehicles with standard loads will not increase the toll due to the adjustment of charging methods.
Wu Dejin said that in order to ensure that the overall burden of freight car tolls will not be increased, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision over the adjustment of toll standards. In the process of adjusting the toll rate of trucks this year, the provincial transportation authorities shall, together with the price and financial departments, complete the preliminary examination of the charging standard and submit it to the Ministry of Transport in a timely manner. The Ministry of Transport will strengthen analysis and research with the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, and strengthen guidance on relevant work in various places.
How to ensure the traffic efficiency of road network after the change of charging method? Wu Dejin said that provinces with obvious characteristics and big differences such as truck traffic flow direction will be encouraged to explore differentiated charges such as road sections, time periods, driving directions and specific entrances and exits, so as to further improve the traffic efficiency of expressway network.
"At present, we are comprehensively cleaning up and standardizing the local vehicle toll reduction and exemption policies, continuously promoting policy improvement, ensuring fair and reasonable fees, and completing the task of canceling the provincial toll stations of expressways as scheduled." Wu Dejin said.
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