Study Of Operation Management System And Toll Polity On Expressway

With the support of the toll road policy issued by State Council of People’sRepublic of China in1984, there is a noteworthy strengthening after30years ofdevelopment in relation to the supply capacity of expressways and increasedstandard of transportation services which led to a profound impact on the continuouseconomic growth and good social benefits. However, some problems regardingexpressway operation management exposed simultaneously with the rapiddevelopment of expressways, for instance, why not adopt tax supply instead ofcharge to supply under the circumstances of fiscal revenue increasing in successiveyears, integration of government administration with enterprise within theexpressway operation management system, monopoly, low efficiency, high toll ratescharge, disordered concession period, irregular transfer of toll road concession,massive debt burden and existed potential risks. Those summarized above can beserved as a whole to show that our expressway operation management system andtoll rates policy are not in order. Nowadays, the phase of large-scale construction ofexpressway came to an end, but a large sum of money still need to be invested inorder to maintain the road. Our country is at a significant stage of pursuing insocialist economic system reform, administrative system reform as well asstate-owned assets management system reform. Under these circumstances, theexpressway operation system and toll policy became the topic and research emphasisof the study.Firstly, research has been done referring to the basic theory of expresswayoperation management and toll policy. The emergency and development of theexpressway, to be used to deeply analyze the nature of expressway; defining theconnotation of expressway operation management system so as to analyze theevolution trend our expressway operation management system; the theory of publicgoods worked as a starter for expressing that the expressway supply theory isrationale, at meanwhile, economic models have also been adopted in order to showthat our expressway operation is in the right direction which based on tolling and several matching policies; major toll policy such as toll rates standard, concessionand fee waivers have been discussed. The mentioned above served as the theoreticalfoundation for the subsequent chapters.Secondly, the research has been done on the toll policy and the circumstances ofexpressway operation management system based on provincial scale so as to analyzethe main problems. From studying on toll policy, the core within the findings such asexpressway construction standard, site settings, toll rates standard, concession, feewaivers arrangement, use of proceedings (government loan expressway) andconcession transfer is toll rates standard, concession and fee waivers arrangement.Thirdly, the research has been done on the reform of the expressway operationmanagement system. The reform of the expressway operation management system isa top-level design with its aim to handle the relationship between the governmentand the market in the process of the development of expressway. The chapter mainlydiscussed the reform target and reform path selection of expressway operationmanagement; designed two kinds of reform model; demonstrated the necessity ofmanaging the assets of expressway whose investments from the central government.Finally, the research has been done on the toll polices of expressway whichmainly focused on proposing specific suggestions and reform ideas regarding thetopics, for instance, toll rates standard, concession, fee waivers, debt risks settlementand specification of franchise.It is expected that the above research can serve as a useful reference for how toachieve sound progress concerning expressway of china.