95% of people using ETC, who are receiving returns...?

95% of people who use ETC 🚗

But who is receiving a return with ETC mileage...?

📊 official does not give the number of members.

ETC mileage requires "member registration" separate from ETC usage.

And even after you register, there's a wall.

✅ ETC Mileage "Three Walls"

First Wall ▶ Membership Registration (Enter multiple information such as VEHICLE control number)

Separate setting of "automatic reduction service" ▶ the second wall

Third Wall ▶ points expire at the end of the year

💰 NEXCO, 1 point for 10 yen, 5,000 points for 5,000 yen reduction.

To accumulate 5,000 points, use the expressway for 50,000 yen.

🚙 a commuter, how much per year?

・ Standard commuting (round trip 2,000 yen × 20 days a month) → 47,500 yen

· Light commuting (round trip 1,000 yen × 15 days a month) → 17,500 yen

· Weekend drive (round trip 2,000 yen × 4 days a month) → 8,000 yen

· Occasionally use (round trip 1,500 yen × 2 days a month) → 2,500 yen

If not registered, these are completely zero.

⏰ points expire after a maximum of two years.

If you don't set up the "automatic reduction service," it may disappear without your knowledge.

📚, there is a study that many subjects do not receive even if it is a system that earns only by applying (Bhargava & Manoli 2015).

5 points to check before choosing ♡

□ Are you registered for your ETC card or mileage service?

Have you set up the "automatic reduction service"?

When was the last time you checked your points?

Are there any points that will expire at the end of the year?

□ Monthly high-speed fee x 12 months, how much do you use per year?

"Just using" and "reaching the return" are different things.

It's not a mount, it's data that you want to check before choosing.

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Source:

・ ETC utilization rate: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism February 2008 announced value / Total of 6 major expressways nationwide (NEXCO East / Central / West / Metropolitan Expressway / Hanshin Expressway / Honshi Expressway)

・ ETC Mileage Award Rate / Return Unit: ETC Mileage Service Official (smile-etc.jp) As of May 2026

Bhargava, Saurabh, and Dayanand Manoli, Psychological Frictions and the Incomplete Take-Up of Social Benefits: Evidence from an IRS Field Experiment, American Economic Review 105 (11): 3489-3529.

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