It will be easier for carriers to pay motorway tolls, European toll system will be launched

It will be easier for carriers to pay motorway tolls, European toll system will be launched
9/5/2017Press releases

The Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic together with Kapsch have successfully tested a piece of new software that will enable the European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) to be operated in the Czech toll system. For European carriers who will use the services of any of the EETS providers, toll payment will be become significantly easier in the future and they will no longer have to purchase the Czech on-board unit for the use of toll roads in the Czech Republic. This can concern up to 370,000 foreign trucks that drive on domestic toll roads every year.

It will be easier for carriers to pay motorway tolls, European toll system will be launched
"Work on the further development of the Czech toll system and its opening up to Europe continues fast. Already in September we will be ready to negotiate with individual providers of the European electronic toll service about the possibility of providing this service on the territory of the Czech Republic. The toll administration process will significantly shorten for the carriers, " says the transport minister Dan Ťok.

 The team of experts from RSD and the existing operator Kapsch are now facing system and integration tests of the central toll system. At the beginning of the summer the complete toll payment process will be reviewed in an open environment (so-called end-to-end tests). Then comes the pilot operation in the form of EETS testing in real toll transactions under test gates.

"It is not our first EETS implementation, in recent years we have modified the toll systems in Poland, Austria and other countries in a similar way," adds Karel Feix, the Kapsch CEO. He also says that all steps of the EETS implementation in the Czech toll system are in line with the approved time schedule and there is no reason why the state should not be ready for EETS by August 31. The full cost of the EETS implementation in the Czech Republic will amount to CZK 282 million excl. VAT according to the signed addendum.

 The accelerated introduction of a European electronic toll service was required by the European Commission, which even started the infringement procedure with the Czech Republic under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union due to a delay in implementation. The introduction of EETS has thus become an essential part of the addenda that Kapsch signed last summer with the Ministry of Transport to ensure further toll operation after 2016 and to announce an open tender for the toll system after 2019.

 The European Electronic Toll Service, according to the European Commission's decision, has to complement national toll systems so that in the future any truck passing through the European Union can use only one on-board unit (OBU) which can communicate with any toll system used in the European Union. Now, transit carriers use a number of on-board units depending on the country through which they are passing. The situation will resemble, for example, the use of a mobile phone abroad where the user only has one contract with the home operator and his or her calls are charged in a single place.


 
Year        Tolls (CZK)                       Year-on-year change
2007 5 565 277 630 -
2008 6 144 1521 02 + 10,40 %
2009 5 543 272 476 - 9,78 %
2010  6 574 441 233 + 18,60 %
2011 8 126 016 899 + 23,60 %
2012 8 680 051 033 + 6,82 %
2013 8 554 998 250 + 1,44 %
2014 8 714 961 827 + 1,87 %
2015 9 732 139 723 + 11,67 %
2016 9 887 562 228 + 1,6 %
Data source in table: myto.cz

 
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