Generally, the expressway service areas are considered to be a place for eating, gas refueling and toilets, but now they are different. Nowadays, expressway service areas can not only give you a new shopping experience of buying imported goods conveniently, but also provides information inquiry services about navigation route, expressway condition, weather forecast and tourism information of the nearby areas based on the “Internet plus” and “cloud computing” technology. The services areas offer drivers and passengers with a comfortable travel.
We learned from the Qinhuangdao branch of Hebei Expressway Management Bureau Service Management Center that in the first season of 2018, services areas along Hebei region expressways put special local foods like Xianghe meet pie, hanging furnace baked wheat cake and Luanzhou stewed pork with brown sauce into the restaurant menu. Also, the Service Management Center conducted following-up examine to the direct drinking water purifier installed last year in the service areas along expressways to Beijing-Tianjin direction, further improving the water quality and guaranteeing its safety. What’s more, the imported commodities purchased and distributed by the Service Management Center are put on sale in Yutian Service Are. The Bureau and the Service Management Center are exploring new approaches to restructure and upgrade the old management model, offering drivers and passengers with convenient chance to buy imported commodities along the expressway.
In the year of 2018, the Qinhuangdao branch center will head towards building environmental-friendly service areas, adhere to the green sustainable development principles of low energy consumption, low material consumption and low carbon emission, facilitate new energy service facilities like charging piles and natural gas stations, and in the meantime deepen the “washroom reform”. Besides, the Qinhuangdao branch center is accelerating the co-development of service areas and tourism, bringing tourism services into service areas, further cooperating with famous tourism companies and websites and launching on-line tourism services. The service areas will adopt new ideas like technology-driven development in order to build a technological foundation to the digitalized, networked and smart modern service areas.