Ministry plans to conduct ETC at BOT stations in 2019The Ministry of Transport plans to install e-tags on 3.2 million motorised vehicles by the year-end in a bid to conduct electronic toll collection (ETC) at build-operate-transfer (BOT) stations in 2019. A lane for electronic toll collection at Long Phuoc Toll Station on HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay ExpresswayThe moves came following Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s instruction on speeding up the implementation of ETC systems at BOT stations across the country. The application of the ETC system at BOT toll stations nationwide by 2019 will help vehicle owners save time, energy and machine depreciation as they do not have to stop at the toll booths. According to the Ministry of Transport, there were some reasons for the delay in application of ETC nationwide. In order to fulfil the designed roadmap, the Ministry of Transport said it would ask BOT toll stations to install ETC on all lanes instead of one or two lanes as currently.