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Hanns-Karsten
Kirchmann, Chairman
of the Executive
Board at Toll Collect
GmbH.
The law to expand the truck toll to all federal trunk roads starting 1 July 2018 came into
force at the end of March 2017. The law will strengthen the user-financed road system
and the policy of infrastructure financed by mobility. Income from tolls contributes
directly to the maintenance and expansion of the nations road infrastructure.
The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) contracted
Toll Collect at the end of June 2016 to lay the technical groundwork for this expansion.
The toll network will be expanded by roughly 40,000 kilometres of federal trunk roads.
To date a total of 15,000 kilometres of motorways and selected federal trunk roads are
subject to toll.
OBU users are already fully prepared for the toll expansion.
A satellite-assisted toll system is the best choice for such a large network of toll roads
aswill exist in the future. In particular, automatic toll collection via the on-board unit
(OBU) offers customers unequivocal advantages, since it permits the driver to change
the route at any time, for example. This provides flexibility and saves time and money
for transport and logistics companies on a daily basis. Another plus: the more than one
million on-board units already installed can continue to be used after the expansion of
the truck toll to all federal trunk roads.
But even for those without an OBU, Toll Collect will offer simple and practical log-on
options for every type of customer in future: a new app, the reliable and simplified on-
line log-on option and upgraded toll terminals will allow for quick and easy payment.
Learn more about the toll expansion in this brochure. Learn more now and be fully pre-
pared for 1 July 2018.
Well keep you up to date in the coming months and let you know about the upcoming
changes to the toll system and about the network expansion.
40,000
additional kilometres
of roads in the federal
Sincerely, Hanns-Karsten Kirchmann trunk road toll system
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MORE KILOMETRES
PROVEN QUALITY
Transport companies and drivers can focus Vehicles can then be registered online as
completely on their core business. OBUs well. Next, the company visits a service
are the all-in-one solution for everything partner who will install the OBU. Toll Col-
concerning the toll. Automatic, simple and lect provides the unit free of charge and
reliable. the company only pays for the installation.
UPGRADED
AUTOMATIC LOG-ON
OUR GUARANTEE
Data protection and data security continue levels of data protection and data secu-
to have the right of way at Toll Collect. rity into the future, engineers and soft-
ware engineers are working closely with
Through the German Federal Trunk Road data protection experts. Moreover, Toll
Toll Act (BFStrMG), the German government Collect continues to rely on the principle
has provided for comprehensive data se- of data avoidance and data economy in
curity since 2004. Under the German Fed- order to offer the highest level of data
eral Trunk Road Toll Act (BFStrMG), toll protection to everyone.
data must be processed and used exclu-
sively for toll collection. Strict legal provi-
sions ensure a very high level of data secu-
rity. The following apply: specified-purpose
use, immediate deletion and prohibition
of forwarding the data to third parties, in-
cluding the provision that the data are
secure against seizure. Even with the up-
grade, the toll system remains a billing
system!
Toll Collect is implementing the industry standard for deletion
Technical upgrades and data protection according to data protection principles as a pilot project
gohand in hand.
Toll
Toll
at a
terminal
TERMINAL, ONLINE AND NOW MOBILE
MANUAL LOG-ON
Faster, simpler, more convenient: Start- g The option of using the app or online
ing in 2018 the upgraded manual log-on log-on will eliminate the need to go to
method for toll payment will offer every toll terminals, which saves time.
customer the right type of access for their
needs. In future, log on and pay from anywhere
with the convenient new app.
The upgraded manual log-on system will
enable customers to log on online via the g The app that Toll Collect plans to launch
internet or at the toll terminal, just as be- with the expansion of the new toll road
fore. Whats new is the option to log-on network provides the most flexible ac-
via an app. These different log-on options cess to the manual log-on system. Cus-
have many advantages: tomers will be able to log on easily from
anywhere at any time, even directly
g the address and vehicle-specific route from a smartphone or tablet in a parked
planning service with origin, destination vehicle.
and via points allows for custom rout-
ing planning and also includes non-toll g The app will be available free of charge
roads. from the usual operating system stores
(Android, iOS, Windows Phone).
g In future, every customer will be able to
use every available log-on method with- Log on online and pay directly.
out having to register with Toll Collect in
advance. Toll Collect already offers online log-on in
addition to the app and toll terminals. Just
g It will even be possible to log on a jour- like the app to be launched in 2018, in fu-
ney in advance online and cancel it on ture online log-on can also be used from
the road via the app. anywhere. The new online log-on is pos-
sible from any device (PC or tablet) with
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ACCESS TOO
internet access, regardless of the type of As a result, log-on processes will become
customer. even more efficient and customers will
save time. Customers will be able to man-
Upgraded toll terminals in Germany and age and delete saved data at any time via
near the border will offer new services for the app or the online application.
customers.
A new payment method: the online
To complement the app and online log-on, substitute for cash.
approximately 1,100 new toll terminals will
be installed along the borders, primarily Payment in cash will continue to be possi-
at large petrol stations, truck stops and ble at up to 800 of the new toll terminals.
motorway rest stops. They will replace the In future, Toll Collect will also offer pay-
existing terminals, which are being gradu- ment via paysafecard as a substitute for
ally phased out. As with all the other man- cash. The paysafecard is an existing pre-
ual log-on methods, point-to-point route paid electronic payment method which
planning that also includes non-toll roads allows the customer to pay for log-on via
will be possible at these terminals, a ca- PC, tablet or app. The paysafecard can be
pability not currently offered with man- purchased for cash at presale locations
ual log-on. It will also be possible to enter (such as certain petrol stations, post of-
via points. fices or kiosks).
With the expansion of the truck toll to all roads. This will keep the environmental
federal trunk roads, it must also be possi- impact and the disruption of natural scen-
ble to verify whether the fee has been ery to a minimum.
properly paid on those roads as well.
Enforcement pillars are NOT speed cam-
To facilitate these checks, enforcement eras! The enforcement pillars check exclu-
pillars will be used to supplement mobile sively whether trucks of 7.5 tonnes or more
enforcement by the German Federal Of- gross vehicle weight have paid the proper
fice for Goods Transport (BAG) on federal fee. The enforcement pillars are coloured
trunk roads. Enforcement gantries will not yellow and are almost four metres in
be erected on federal trunk roads. The en- height in order to differentiate them from
forcement pillars will feature similar tech- speed camera pillars for speed control.
nological capabilities as the enforcement
gantries installed on motorways. But in Technology of the enforcement pillars
contrast to the gantries, the enforcement andhow they work
pillars do not extend across all lanes but
instead integrate better into the more The enforcement pillars are stationary
rural landscape along the federal trunk structures installed next to the lane; as a
vehicle drives by, they check whether it is
subject to pay the toll. Just as with the en-
Instead of the forcement gantries, the German Federal
Motorway Federal trunk road
enforcement Trunk Road Toll Act (BFStrMG) contains
gantries common strict provisions for detection of vehicles
on motorways, at the enforcement pillars. Only data from
new enforcement trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 7.5
pillars are being tonnes or more and that are suspected of
used on federal non-payment or incorrect payment will be
trunk roads. transmitted to a control centre, as is al-
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OADS
ready the case today. All other data will be ministrative offices. Any road closures will
immediately deleted. be r educed to a minimum thanks to new
construction methods.
Construction of the enforcement pillars
New enforcement
pillars will be used
on federal trunk
roads in future.
Addresses and contacts: For more information: Imprint:
Toll Collect GmbH www.toll-collect.de Toll Collect GmbH
Customer Service www.mauttabelle.de Communications Department
Postfach 110329 www.bmvi.de Martin Rickmann (person respon-
10833 Berlin www.bag.bund.de sible under German press law)
service@toll-collect.de www.toll-collect-blog.de Linkstrae 4 10785 Berlin
www.youtube.com/user/TollCollectVideo www.toll-collect.de
www.facebook.com/TollCollect presse@toll-collect.de
Date: May 2017
Credits:
Toll Collect GmbH, Fotolia Production and Design
Management:
SpiessConsult GmbH & Co. KG