# Presentation: 261757

## The German GNSS Toll Systemon Motorways and on Main Roads

**Washington **
**September 5, 2007**

## Toll Collect is set up as a Public Private Partnership

**Toll Collect-**
**System**

**Public**

**Private**

**Users**

**build**

**run**

**Contract**

**Revenue**

**Toll**

**Funding**

**Fees**

**Return**

**Revenue**

**TC **
**Services**

**Toll Collect is set up as a Public Private Partnership**

- Federal Ministry of Transport,
- Building and Urban Develpoment

## GSM

**The German GNSS Toll System combines****GPS and GSM**

***GSM***

## The automatic system

- 0,60€

- 0,30€

- 1,00€

- 0,00

- Virtual toll plaza

- GPS

- Beacon GPS support

- 0,60

- 0,90

- 1,90

**The automatic system**

## On-Board Unit enables automatic Toll Collection on any Class of Road

**On-Board Unit enables automatic Toll Collection ****on any Class of Road**

- Based on proven key technologies (GPS, GSM)
- On-Board Unit calculates toll dependent on emission class and number of axles
- Transmission of charged road segments to data centre via GSM (SMS message)
- Updates of chargeable new road segments or toll rates are achieved wirelessly via GSM
- Platform for future added-value services
- Ready for future interoperability with other European road user charging systems

- Din slot version

- Dashboard mounted

## User in automatic system as of July, 30thTOP 15

**User in automatic system as of July, 30th****TOP 15**

**Total**Germany
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Czech Republic
- Austria
- Belgium
- Hungary
- Spain
- Slovakia
- Lithunia
- Italy
- France
- Turkey
- Slovenia
- Luxembourg

_**registered user**_

_**registered vehicles**_

_**mounted OBU**_

**108.609**
- 72.523
- 6.031
- 7.763
- 2.397
- 2.724
- 2.156
- 1.481
- 2.571
- 1.119
- 675
- 1.471
- 1.300
- 187
- 696
- 357

**875.162**
- 491.547
- 58.985
- 62.861
- 29.731
- 24.280
- 23.209
- 14.565
- 20.689
- 11.536
- 12.108
- 18.902
- 30.902
- 8.128
- 6.828
- 6.547

**584.988**
**359.128**
**45.702**
**44.072**
**22.273**
**15.794**
**11.650**
**8.959**
**8.588**
**7.840**
**7.683**
**6.969**
**6.014**
**4.972**
**4.641**
**4.231**

## The Reservation Modes

**Automatic system**

**M****anual system**

- On-Board Unit

- Internet

- Terminal

**10 %**

**90 %**

- The automatic reservation mode is the most convenient way to pay the toll and it is widely accepted by the users

## Manual System

**Internet reservation**
- Prerequisite: registration with Toll Collect
- Users receive a user ID and password
- Secure data transfer
**Toll Station Terminal**
- More than 3,500 toll station terminals in Germany and abroad (at rest stops, border crossings and service stations).
- Entry of vehicle information, route, starting time
- Printing of log-on receipt
**In both cases**
- Routes can be booked three days in advance
- Before journey starts: cancellation of complete route possible
- After journey starts: partial cancellation of unused route possible
- Operation in four languages (D, GB, F, PL)
- Telephone support for reservations

## Enforcement

- Toll regulations are enforced by the BAG
- Automatic enforcement: 300 automatic control gantries are provided (comparable with bridges for multi-lane electronic tolling)
- Stationary enforcement: BAG officers stop vehicle after it passes control gantry
- Mobile enforcement: 278 BAG enforcement vehicles (T5) are provided
- Automatic log-on is checked via communication with On-Board Units
- Manual log-on is checked by scanning vehicle licence plates and communication with the Toll Collect computing centre
- Suspected toll violators are stopped by BAG officers
- Additional enforcement: on-site inspections

## Mobile Control Units

- Vehicles supplied by the BAG, Enforcement technology designed installed and maintenanced by Toll Collect
- The vehicles are equipped with a car server, two laptop workstations, CC-Terminal, OBU, handheld unit and portable terminal for communication with gantries

**DSRC / IR**

**GSM / GPRS**

**GPS**

**online booking informaton****from TC server**

**Reading out truck’s OBU**** in movement**

**Mobile Control Units**

**Communications of the control units**

**Positionning via the OBU. Automatic transfer of basic information into control report (license plate, time, place, agent’s ID)**

**DECT**

**Reading out OBU of pulled-out truck****and transfer to car server**

**WLAN**

**Data transmission from gantry to ****control-vehicle**

## Toll Statement

## Detailed Toll Statement

**Detailed Toll Statement**

## Operational Status as of July 2007

**registered users in thousands /end of period**
**registered vehicles in thousands****/end of period**
**mounted OBU in thousands / end of period**
**availability / accuracy level of automatic system**
**toll income in billion €**
**toll kilometres in billion**
**quota automatic system**
**quota manual system**
**sent invoices to customers in thousands**
**amount credit notes in thousand €**
**controlled vehicles BAG+TC in million**
**Level of potential Fraud**

**109.1**
**736.3**
**482.3**
**99%**
**2.87**
**23.9**
**86%**
**14%**
**1,004.5**
**86.9**
**17.6**
**< 2%**

**2005 as of 31.12.2005**

**118.2**
**846.5**
**546.0**
**99.75%**
**3.08**
**25.8**
**90%**
**10%**
**1,043.2**
**108.1**
**18.2**
**< 2%**

**2006 as of** **31.12.2006**

- 7,26 billion € toll has been charged since January 1, 2005
- 2.5 million invoices were sent to customers
- the amount of installed OBU raised from 320,000 (January 2005) up to 585,000

**2007 as of 31.07.2007**

**Operational Status as of July 2007**

**108.6**
**875.2**
**585.0**
**99.75%**
**1.91**
**15.9**
**90%**
**10%**
**647.8**
**54.5**
**10.5**
**< 2%**

## Customer Relationship – the Website

**Explanation of the different booking opportunities**
**Booking simulator**
**Lists of POS and Service Partners are provided**
**Download of different information, brochures and forms**
**Multilingual**
**Internet booking possible**

**www.toll-collect.de**

## German specific Feature: Flexibility for tolling Main Roads 

- Due to the tolling of the motorways, some trucks diverted to free main roads to avoid paying the toll, causing a nuisance to neighbours (safety, pollution, noise)
- In order for the trucks to return to the motorways the Bundesrat voted in October 2006 for the tolling of three main roads from January 01, 2007 onwards
- It was possible to implement this so quickly only with satellite technology, not requiring any ground infrastructure

**Traffic deviation from the A7 motorway to the B4 main road**

**A ****tolled main road**

## German specific Feature: Flexibility and easy evolution together with the network

**A ****motorway network « lives »**
**New sections will be added or removed regularly**
**The updates only apply for the cartography and they are done « by the air », without any ground infrastructure**

- 5186

- 5246

- 5231

- 5233

- 5239

- 5237

- 5237

- 5243

- 5237

- 5237

- 5261

- 5371

- 5150

- 5180

- 5210

- 5240

- 5270

- 5300

- 5330

- 5360

- 5390

- Nov

- Dec

- 2005

- Jan 2006

- Feb

- Mar

- Apr

- May

- June

- July

- August

- Sep

- Oct

- Nov

- Dec

- 2006

- Jan 2007

- 5214

- 5248

- 5254

**Change of toll sections between November 2005 and January 2007**

## German specific Feature: it is environmental friendly

**Evolution of the pollution classes of the vehicles registered by TC**

**Class 1 is the most polluting and class 6 is the least polluting**

## System serves as a Tool for the Financing and the Management of modern Traffic Infrastructure

- Building and Maintenance of Roads

- Traffic Management

- Environmental Protection

## Interoperability – Today...

## Interoperability - The Vision

- One Onboard-Unit, one contract