During major festivals, free toll policy of expressways for small passenger cars can stimulate people's travel frequency and increase the income tourism. Free toll policy of expressways leads to the increase of traffic volume, serious traffic congestion and frequent traffic accidents, which brings great challenges to the management and maintenance of expressways. In order to solve these problems, from the perspective of utilizing the potential capacity of the road, the expressways free tolls in major festivals can be changed to per vehicle free tolls for some day every year, choosing a specific date by booking online. The public acceptability of the method is analyzed from the perspectives of economy, safety and environmental protection.

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