Japan Highway

Fast fee hike or ministry study of non-ETC vehicles, aim implementation 2004 in the Tokyo metropolitan area

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the vehicle that way without equipped with automatic toll collection system (ETC) on the highway in the metropolitan area, it is one day are studying in the direction you want to raise the toll to 2016 fiscal year, It was found. ETC non vehicles compared with ETC vehicles, toll collection costs are up to 5 times, to review from the point of view of the beneficiaries burden. Along with the further consolidation of ETC, it's also aims to encourage the spread of the new system "ETC2.0" that it is possible to provide a detailed traffic information.

Highway toll the ETC non-equipped vehicles that will pay in cash already, is expensive fee than ETC vehicles and highway around has been set. In the case of Metropolitan Expressway, if the ETC car 510-930 yen, depending on the distance (normal car, the basic rate) has been set to, you have to pay 930 yen of the maximum amount in the basic fare to be a non-ETC vehicles .

Although 90% of the car to use the highway is equipped with the ETC in the current, and the remaining 10% of the non-ETC vehicle maintenance costs, such as equipment to deal with labor and cash Kasami, cost of five times of ETC car it rests. In addition, domestic ETC installation rate in the ownership base it's current situation is that only about 5-6 percent.

In response to this situation, in the basic policy on high-speed road users that the ministry is summarized in January it had been a "should be considered for further action regarding the use burden of non-ETC vehicles".