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That answers some questions then opens up new ones. How does 50 toll booths make sense for a 4 lane highway? Contactless tolls existed back then and of all the countries, surely China of all places would be able to implement it cheaper and easily get drivers to install the contactless device needed as well as set up the license plate surveillance to enforce it.
Because passing through a toll booth slows down each vehicle, you can move more vehicles through the space with additional terminals. Unfortunately, when you've got peak traffic, the folks on the other side of the terminal can still create congestion as they merge back into the smaller lane.
The solution to this, from the Chinese perspective, is massive investment in High Speed Rail.
If you don't want to sit in traffic at a major tool entrance like this, you can just ride any of the 200 mph+ train routes crisscrossing the nation.
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Even contactless tolls require drivers to slow down and pass through a gated entrance. You're not going through a terminal at 100 kmph. Wide toll gates like this exist from Houston to Hamburg.
You have to deal with the inevitable folks who don't have the right kind of RFID tag, don't know how to properly navigate the gate, or simply fuck up as drivers passing into a congested part of the freeway.