The Roadpricing System for Germany An innovative system for non stop Toll Collection

Some solutions for Roadpricing Vignette Manual tolling Electronic Toll Collection Monolane Electronic Toll Collection Multilane

HGV Roadpricing in Germany Target : Heavy Goods Vehicles > 12 T Current situation : the Eurovignette user fee based on time amount collected in 2001 : 425 M€ Future situation : Automatic charging user fee based on distance average charging rate : approx. 0,15€ /km expected revenues for first year: apprix. 3500 M€

The Eurovignette organisation Heavy goods vehicle Point of payment Payment terminal Data transfer Central accounting system Invoices Certificate of payment Actors / Shareholders ARAL AG Petrol stations BZG / SVG Carriers association Deutsche Shell AG DKV EURO Service Service provider and debit card for carriers ESSO AG EuroShell Debit card for petrol services UTA, Union Tank Eckstein GmbH & Co. KG Service provider and debit cards for carriers

The German context 16 Länder 12 000 km of motorways 4 700 sections 27 billions km travelled per year by HGV over 12 t Average trip on motorways : 150 km Number of HGV over 12 t : 1,4 millions, of which 630 000 foreigners

Requirements Design of a system : The system shall be dual : to develop to finance to install to collect fees on behalf of the State during 12 years The system shall be dual : automatic system manual system, open to all Interoperable in Europe

The Toll Collect Consortium Daimler Chrysler Services (debis AG): 45% a vehicle (Car + trucks) manufacturer and service provider Deutsche Telekom AG : 45% a telecom operator Cofiroute SA : 10% a French motorway concessionaire and operator Start of operation : August 2003

Principles Methods Payment Means User profile GPS Trip reservation Automatic system Manual system Methods Means User profile Payment GPS Trip reservation On trip Before travel On Board Unit (OBU) Liaison GSM/GPRS Point of sale, Internet, Call Center Frequent user Occasional user

Accounting/ Value added services The automatic system Vehicles equiped with an On Board Unit (OBU) Autonomous system Possible future telematics services Value Added Services ETC Center N GPS Payment information Accounting/ Value added services Location Value Added Services Forwarding agency OBU

The O.B.U

Distribution of OBU Network of 1800 fitters installation in less than 4h in operation 6 months before system opening Deposit for OBU gives a credit for future bills Schedule for vehicles fitting 150 000 before opening 350 000 after one year

Additional vehicle localisation Broadcasting beacons (infrared) Complementary to GPS Used in difficult reception zones Or when GPS does not provide enough accuracy

The manual reservation system An alternative access to the automatic system - points of sale, - Internet, - Call Center. Open to all (non - discriminatory) ETC Center Call Centre Internet Point of sale

POS prototype - 3 500 POS to install The “Point of Sales” POS prototype - 3 500 POS to install

Location of the POS

The enforcement The enforcement is based on licence plate recognition (authorised by law) Automatic enforcement classification and identification of the vehicles Stationnary enforcement Stoppage of the vehicles by Police Mobile enforcement Police vehicles in traffic flow Enforcement at factory offices

Automatic enforcement 300 gantries

Mobile enforcement 278 vehicles for mobile enforcement

Enforcement at factory offices Staff of 40 shifts

System performance The required performances are : Automatic system : 99% of transactions OK Manual system : 99% of POS available, 24h/24 , 7 days/7 Enforcement : minimum 10% of vehicles checked identification rate of 70%