The Expressway Authority of Thailand (Thai: การทางพิเศษแห่งประเทศไทย) (EXAT) is a state enterprise under the Ministry of Transport.[1] It was founded in 1972, and operates Thailand's expressway (ทางพิเศษ thang phiset) system, which refers to (usually elevated) high-capacity controlled-access highways serving the Greater Bangkok area and some nearby provinces.
EXAT does not operate the separate Thai motorway network, which covers intercity controlled-access highways.
First opened in 1981, the system currently (2015) consists of seven expressways and four expressway links adding up to a total distance of 207.9 kilometres (129.2 mi), unchanged since FY2012.[2][3]: 72 [needs update] In 2013 the system served 594 million cars.[4]
The constituent expressway systems are (in order of completion):[5]
Fiscal year 2015 (year ending 30 September 2015) revenues were 16,060 million baht on total assets of 180,696 million baht.[3]: 4 It employed 4,701 regular and 625 temporary employees in FY2015.[3]: 19 EXAT's top seven executives were remunerated 12.9 million baht total in FY2015.[3]: 29
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