Renewal of the website "E-NEXCO Drive Plaza"

-Enhanced ETC discount information and traffic information to make the site easier for customers to use! ~

September 27, 2007
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.

Since the privatization of JH Japan Highway Public Corporation in October 2005, the websites “DoraNavi” and “Highway Navigator” that have been jointly operated in NEXCO East/Central/West Japan will operate at midnight on Thursday, October 4th. After the end, information will be sent to each company's website in the future.

In response, NEXCO EAST (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Chairman of the Board: Shigejiro Yagi) will start at 2:00 pm on October 1st (Monday) at our drive travel portal site "E-NEXCO Drive Plaza" (http://www.driveplaza.com) Has been renewed, the information provided has been enhanced, and the site has been improved to make it easier to use, and it will be provided as a site that gives even more detail to customers who have been using "DoraNavi".

In addition, As you can familiar continue to customers of "Doranabi," "DraPla use the nickname".

The features of this renewal are as follows.

We will enhance the contents of ETC discount information and traffic information.

  • ETC discount information (guidance for time zone discounts (commuting discounts, early morning and night discounts, late night discounts, etc. for those new to ETC)
  • Traffic information (congestion forecast calendar, safety drive information, etc.)

National Expressway toll/route search and SA/PA search become easier to use.

  • We conducted a usability test and worked to improve operability by Large the map on the charge search screen and making it easier for customers to use. With these improvements, Expressway "Drive Plaza" convenience of the familiar chair I am confident that you are able to experience the necessary information to customers as a portal site that can offer one-stop.

NEXCO EAST will continue to strive to further enhance our services so that our customers can use the Expressway comfortably.

reference

About E-NEXCO Drive Plaza

This is a portal site for drive travel that opened on October 31, 2006. Providing Expressway charge/route search system using the search engine of "Station Spareto", transmitting seasonal topics in the area through SA/PA blogs, Web shopping for specialty products along the Expressway line We provide a wide range of information related to Expressway 's drive trips, such as accommodation reservations.

We are also working to disseminate information to various media such as Yahoo!'s Yahoo! map information “Waiwai Map” and Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. “Carwings”.

・Top screen image after the renewal of “DraPla”

Image of the top screen image after "DraPla" renewal

Content enhancement example

・Guide screen image for ETC time zone discount (early morning and night discount)

Image of ETC time zone discount (early morning and night discount) screen image

・Congestion forecast calendar image

Image of congestion forecast calendar image

Example of improving the site to make it easier to use: Price/route search screen

·Before improvement

The map area is small, making it difficult for customers to operate.

Image of charge/route search screen before improvement

·After improvement

The map area has been Large to make it easier for customers to operate.

Image of improved price/route search screen