Is the MTC lane a manual lane?
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MTC is a relatively traditional highway toll collection system, which is the existing manual toll collection system. Both MTC and ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) belong to intelligent transportation systems. Here are the detailed introductions: 1. MTC lane: The MTC lane consists of an Automatic Vehicle Classification (AVC) system, card reader devices, display equipment, video surveillance, automatic barriers, and computer software systems. The card reader can be either contact or contactless. 2. ETC lane: ETC is an Electronic Toll Collection system, which is an automatic toll collection for highways or bridges. It uses dedicated short-range communication between the vehicle's electronic tag installed on the windshield and the microwave antenna on the ETC lane at the toll station, combined with computer networking technology for backend settlement processing with banks. This allows vehicles to pass through highway or bridge toll stations without stopping to pay the tolls.