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An electronic toll collection lane equals five other lanes where tolls are collected manually, as transit time is cut to three seconds from 14 seconds. It can ease traffic jams substantially.

Wang Gang, director of the ETC center under the Ministry of Transport, talking about the advantage of the ETC system on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported. China will launch a national unified ETC system in the next year, which Wang said will solve freeway congestion, save logistics costs and cut emissions.