the roadpricing system for germany

ETC Seminar 26/09/02

An innovative system for non stop Toll Collection

The Roadpricing System

for Germany


Manual tolling

Vignette

Electronic Toll CollectionMultilane

Electronic Toll CollectionMonolane

Some solutions for Roadpricing

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 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€


Actors / Shareholders

ARAL AG Petrol stations

BZG / SVG Carriers association

Deutsche Shell AG Petrol stations

DKV EURO ServiceService provider and debit card for carriers

ESSO AG Petrol stations

EuroShell Debit card for petrol services

UTA, Union Tank Eckstein GmbH & Co. KG Service provider and debit cards for carriers

Heavy goods vehicle Point of paymentPayment terminal

Data transferCentral

accounting system

Invoices

Certificate of payment

The Eurovignette organisation

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 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

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Requirements

Design of a system : 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

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 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


Automatic systemAutomatic system

Methods

Means

User profile

Payment

GPS

On Board Unit (OBU)Liaison GSM/GPRSFrequent user

On trip

Occasional user

Point of sale, Internet,Call Center

Trip reservation

Before travel

Manual systemManual system

Principles


Vehicles equiped with an On Board Unit (OBU)

Autonomous system

Possible future telematics services

GPS

ETC Center

Forwarding agency

OBU

Payment information

Value Added Services

Value Added Services

Location

Accounting/ Value added services

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The automatic system

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 The O.B.U

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 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

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Additional vehicle localisation

Broadcasting beacons (infrared)

Complementary to GPS

Used in difficult reception zones

Or when GPS does not provide enough accuracy


An alternative access to the automatic system

- points of sale,

- Internet,

- Call Center.

Open to all (non - discriminatory)

ETC Center

Point of saleCall Centre Internet

The manual reservation system


POS prototype - 3 500 POS to install

The “Point of Sales”

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Location of the POS

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 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


300 gantries

Automatic enforcement


278 vehicles for mobile enforcement

Mobile enforcement


Staff of 40 shifts

Enforcement at factory offices

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 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%

the roadpricing system for germany

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