China News Service, Ningbo, October 3 (Huang Hui and Wang Yuchen) It was the National Day holiday, and the "walking on the road" mode was started again.

It has been ten years since the policy of waiving tolls for small passenger vehicles on major holidays was implemented in 2012.

In ten years, what changes have quietly occurred?

  Hu Tengteng is a toll monitor at the Ningbo Toll Station in Zhejiang, and has experienced 9 free passes during the National Day holiday.

Talking about the changes in the past ten years, she felt a lot.

  "I still remember that before the evening shift on September 30, 2012, the squad leader specially informed us that we had to arrive 15 minutes earlier in order to meet the zero-hour free bus travel work on time. Looking back now, I still remember the nervous feeling at that time. Deep down, my palms can't stop sweating, for fear of something going wrong, but I have to keep a smile on my face." Hu Tengteng said that in the first year of the toll-free policy, she was only a "novice" toll collector.

  "When the first toll-free passenger car drove into the lane, I bent down 45 degrees to prepare for the car and greeted the driver. The driver handed over the pass received at the entrance, and I operated according to the specifications that I have practiced thousands of times. The first free pass vehicle was released." Hu Tengteng recalled.

  In the past ten years, she has witnessed the transformation from the use of free pass vouchers for major holidays to the use of Chinese road paper passes, and also witnessed the first free pass 6 hours before the start, 4 hours before the end, and now 6 hours before and after the free pass. The time of issuing coupons changed, and she also grew into a charge monitor.

  With the addition of the ETC toll system in 2014 and the cancellation of provincial toll stations in 2020, the traffic on the expressway has become more smooth and convenient.

But she said that she still couldn't relax, and the pressure of more investment in operation was transferred to vehicle guidance and service drivers.

"Usually there are a lot of toll-free vehicles that do not have ETC installed and go directly to the ETC dedicated lane. Now we need to guide these vehicles to the dedicated lane, do a good job of explaining patiently, and be a 'living map' and 'treasure box'. Take the urgency, think what the driver thinks."

  Different from the manual entry of the pass code ten years ago, today, toll collectors can use a code scanner to enter the station code information in one stop, which not only improves the pass efficiency, but also reduces the work pressure.

This kind of intelligent change is more than one place.

  In order to cope with the pressure of maintaining smooth traffic during the National Day toll free period, and strive to create a safe, smooth, comfortable and efficient driving environment for the public, the Ningbo Management Center of the Expressway of Zhejiang Provincial Transportation Group has made an advance inspection of the Ningbo section of the Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway under its jurisdiction. . The Ningbo Section (Phase II) of the Yongtaiwen Expressway has carried out the investigation of hidden safety hazards of structures. A total of more than 900 structures of various types have been investigated, and the structures have been managed intelligently.

  In the past, obtaining high-speed accident information relied on manual inspections and active alarms by drivers and passengers. Now, relying on a large monitoring screen that is updated in real time 24 hours a day, the management center can realize high-frequency electronic inspections, actively detect abnormal conditions on the expressway, and cooperate with expressways in the jurisdiction. Traffic police, external rescue assistance and other departments, rescue teams are stationed at toll stations 24 hours a day, to achieve rapid accident disposal and rapid deployment of emergency rescue.

  It is reported that from 0:00 on October 1 to 18:00 on October 2, the number of free vehicles at Ningbo Toll Station has reached 35,986.

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