On April 16th, the first full-station long-distance "Smart Cloud" toll station in Henan Province-Lankao West Standard Demonstration Toll Station of Japan-Zhao-Lan Expressway was completed and put into operation.
The horn of speeding up the construction of a transportation power has sounded, and the wave of building a smart highway is surging forward. In order to realize the vision of "people enjoy their travel and goods flow smoothly", it is an indispensable and important part to make the expressway more convenient and efficient through technical empowerment. Facing the new situation and new requirements of "one network running and integrated service" of the national expressway, it has become a development trend to continuously promote digital operation management and business transformation and upgrading by using the new generation of intelligent information technology to further improve the traffic efficiency of toll stations, improve the satisfaction of travel services, reduce the daily operating costs of toll stations, and create fewer people and intelligent toll stations.
In order to meet the people’s demand for beautiful travel, the operation and management unit of Rilan Expressway continued to innovate, accelerated the digital transformation, and built Lankao West standard demonstration toll station through various smart facilities and information technology. The convenient experience of improving service quality and passing quickly gives drivers and passengers a real sense of experience and gain.
Centralized management and control of whole station intelligence
Driving through the Lankao West standard demonstration toll station, the roadside wisdom cloud cabin catches people’s attention. As the "central brain" of the toll station, the smart cloud cabin integrates charging, monitoring, ticket management, broadcasting and information release, and realizes centralized control of the charging site business.
Efficient management benefits from the comprehensive innovation of construction concept and technology. It is understood that Lankao West Standard Demonstration Toll Station adopts "whole station intelligent terminal+intensive assembly construction+less humanized operation service" to create a new generation of "smart cloud" toll station. Introduce smart cloud cabin, edge station, ramp pre-transaction and other technologies, comprehensively innovate the traditional toll station construction and operation mode, realize self-service payment, remote duty and other functions, and greatly reduce the construction, operation and system operation and maintenance costs.
As the first "Smart Cloud" toll station in Henan Province with no kiosks and narrow islands, Lankao West Standard Demonstration Toll Station has unified configuration and deployment of the toll station based on the original site, and increased the original five lanes to eight lanes to meet the growing traffic demand. In the design and construction process, the concept of "innovation, intelligence and green" has been applied to the whole process of expressway operation and management, and new concepts, new technologies and new equipment have been fully utilized. It has achieved "intensive lanes, lightweight construction and intelligent operation", greatly improving the traffic efficiency of vehicles and providing people with a more convenient, efficient, safe and comfortable travel environment.
"Eight Highlights" Unlock New Travel Experience
As an important expressway leading to lankao county, the birthplace of Jiao Yulu spirit, the daily average traffic volume of the original Lankao West Toll Station can reach 10,000 vehicles, and the once "two up and three down" toll lanes can no longer meet the increasing traffic demand.
After the implementation of the transformation and upgrading of digital intelligence, the traffic efficiency of the Lankao West standard demonstration toll station, which has gathered the "eight highlights", has been significantly improved, and the congestion problem at the toll station has been effectively solved. The facilities empowered by wisdom have also made the past drivers and passengers feel refreshed and unlocked. Travel new experience.
Free-flow pre-transaction on ramp promotes the traffic efficiency greatly, the concept of building a station on narrow island helps toll stations to stop becoming blocking points, ETC lane lantern design innovates new visual experience, intelligent self-service lanes are fully covered to improve the self-service toll collection capacity of lanes, managers are in front and toll collectors are behind, which realizes the transformation from three-foot booth to smart cloud cabin, remote cloud seating system integrates scientific and technological elements into special handling, island-front guidance facilities and data fusion system realize flexible control of lane-level order, and edge stations help intelligent transformation of toll stations to lay the foundation of edge computing platform.
At present, the safe, convenient and efficient Lankao West standard demonstration toll station has become the "four firsts" in Henan Province (the first red toll station that inherits the spirit of Jiao Yulu; The first intensive toll station with few people and no pavilion, narrow island and narrow shed; The first toll station with pre-management and post-charging, and a smart cloud cabin; The first quasi-free flow toll station with on-ramp pre-transaction) is an accurate demonstration toll station.
Humanized design does not slow down.
Transformation and upgrading are smarter. The putting into use of the remote toll station is a concrete practice to realize the concept of "self-help with fewer people, automation with fewer people, and intelligent assistance with people", which can effectively improve the work efficiency of staff and enable staff to deal with special situations, service guidance and emergency support in a more focused and timely manner.
Lankao West Standard Demonstration Toll Station has set up a pre-paid portal at the entrance and exit to advance ETC transactions from the driveway to the ramp; Using lightweight guidance screen to prompt the transaction status of vehicles, effectively shunting vehicles; Pre-weighing equipment is also installed at the entrance of the toll station to realize the dynamic detection of passing vehicles without stopping, slowing down and feeling, forming a mode of "ETC+ smart card issuing robot+export smart charging robot+remote control duty", which truly realizes the self-service card collection and charging of "CPC card +ETC vehicle full model". The equipment is divided into upper and lower stations, and the automatic extension function of the stations is added. The humanized design is not only convenient for different types of vehicles to pick up their own cards, but also unattended in the whole process of charging. The "self-service card issuing machine" automatically issues cards and the "smart payment robot" self-service payment promotes the high-quality development of charging business.
Compared with the traditional manual toll collection mode, the remote toll station has achieved better results in improving release efficiency, reducing operating costs, reducing capital risks, strengthening safety management, upgrading management efficiency, and realizing carbon reduction and energy enhancement.