Introduction of the Portable ETC Backup System

In Japan the ETC (Electronic Toll Collection System) utilization rate has been over 80%. Because the demand of ETC become high and new toll discount offers for using ETC has attracted many people, the ETC utilization will increase and the social impact of closing ETC lanes by road repairing and inspection will become huge. On this research paper, we are going to introduce “the portable ETC backup system” to install the ETC system in non-ETC lane temporarily when the ETC system breaks down.