New regulations on toll station operations take effect from January 1, 2025
The Ministry of Transport has issued Circular 34/2024/TT-BGTVT regulating the operation of road toll stations. It clearly states the regulations on management and exploitation of road toll collection data.
Road toll collection data
The Circular clearly states that road toll collection data includes traffic account information data and data on road toll payment transactions.
Traffic account information data includes traffic account information as prescribed by law on electronic payment of road traffic.
Data on road use fee payment transactions includes: 1- Data files on road use fee payment information according to the provisions of the law on electronic payment of road traffic; 2- Data files on traffic volume, toll revenue, single-trip tickets, monthly tickets, quarterly tickets; 3- Video files on lane monitoring and panoramic monitoring.
Road toll collection data must comply with the provisions of the law on electronic transactions and the law on network information security.
Road toll collection data storage mode:
According to the Circular, panoramic surveillance video files are stored for at least 1 year.
Lane monitoring video files; image files capturing vehicles passing through toll stations are stored for a minimum of 5 years.
Store from the time the toll station is put into operation until 10 years after the termination of the PPP project contract or from the time the toll station stops operating for road use payment information data files (except vehicle photos, license plate photos); data files on traffic volume, toll revenue, single-trip tickets, monthly tickets, and quarterly tickets.
Traffic account information data files are stored from the time the traffic account is opened until 10 years after the traffic account is closed.
Connecting road toll collection data
The Circular clearly states that road toll collection data is connected according to current standards on toll collection, according to the provisions of the law on electronic payment of road traffic and the requirements of competent authorities.
Road toll payment service providers must ensure connection, sharing, and synchronization of data based on the principles of readiness, feasibility, convenience, and avoidance of duplication and waste according to the provisions of this Circular and relevant laws. The cost of connecting toll collection data between Back-Ends is agreed upon by road toll payment service providers.
Road toll collection data must be connected to the road traffic electronic payment database management system according to the provisions of law on road traffic electronic payment.
Connecting road toll collection data must ensure transmission speed and redundancy; meet security and confidentiality requirements for information and data according to regulations of law on electronic transactions, law on network security, law on network information security.
The operating system and data center of the road toll payment service provider (Back-End system) is the system prescribed by law on electronic payment of road traffic.
Management and exploitation of road toll collection data
The Vietnam Road Administration manages and exploits data on road toll collection from toll stations on the road traffic electronic payment database management system; exploits data on road toll payment transactions through the login account and password provided to access the information portal for state management agencies on the Back-End system of the road toll payment service provider.
The People's Committee at the provincial level organizes the management and exploitation of road use fee collection data of toll stations managed by the locality on the road traffic electronic payment database management system; exploits transactions on road use fee payment of toll stations managed by the locality through the login account and password provided to access the information portal for state management agencies on the Back-End system of the road use fee payment service provider.
The road toll payment service provider manages and exploits road toll collection data on the Back-End system according to the provisions of the collection service contract and the provisions of law on electronic payment for road traffic.
The collection management unit and the collection operation unit manage and exploit data on road use fee collection in the form of one-stop at toll stations under their management. At the same time, they must synchronize data on the history of road use fee collection transactions in the form of one-stop at toll stations with the Back-End system of the road use fee payment service provider.
The collection management unit and the collection operation unit exploit data on road use fee payment transactions of toll stations under their management through the login account provided to access the Back-End system portal of the road use fee payment service provider.
Vehicle owners are allowed to exploit data to collect road use fees through traffic accounts and electronic road traffic payment applications for vehicle owners on the Back-End system of the road use fee payment service provider.
The management and exploitation of road toll collection data must comply with the provisions of the law on electronic transactions, the law on network security, the law on network information security and other relevant legal provisions.
The Circular takes effect from January 1, 2025.
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