ETC Seminar 26 09 02 The Roadpricing System for Germany

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 The Roadpricing System for Germany An innovative system for non stop Toll Collection

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Some solutions for Roadpricing Vignette Manual tolling Electronic Toll Collection Monolane 2 Electronic Toll Collection Multilane

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 HGV Roadpricing in Germany l Target : Heavy Goods Vehicles > 12 T l Current situation : the Eurovignette à à l user fee based on time amount collected in 2001 : 425 M€ Future situation : Automatic charging à à average charging rate : approx. 0, 15€ /km à 3 user fee based on distance expected revenues for first year: apprix. 3500 M€

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 The Eurovignette organisation Certificate of payment Actors / Shareholders ARAL AG Petrol stations BZG / SVG Carriers association Payment terminal Heavy goods vehicle Point of payment Deutsche Shell AG Petrol stations DKV EURO Service provider and debit card for carriers ESSO AG Petrol stations Euro. Shell Debit card for petrol services Invoices Central accounting system 4 Data transfer UTA, Union Tank Eckstein Gmb. H & Co. KG Service provider and debit cards for carriers

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 The German context l 16 Länder l 12 000 km of motorways l 4 700 sections l 27 billions km travelled per year by HGV over 12 t l Average trip on motorways : 150 km l 5 Number of HGV over 12 t : 1, 4 millions, of which 630 000 foreigners

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 l Requirements Design of a system : à à to finance à to install à l to develop to collect fees on behalf of the State during 12 years The system shall be dual : à à l 6 automatic system manual system, open to all Interoperable in Europe

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 l The Toll Collect Consortium Daimler Chrysler Services (debis AG): 45% à à l a vehicle (Car + trucks) manufacturer and service provider Deutsche Telekom AG : 45% à l Cofiroute SA : 10% à l 7 a telecom operator a French motorway concessionaire and operator Start of operation : August 2003

Principles ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Automatic system Manual system Methods Trip reservation Payment On trip Before travel Means On Board Unit (OBU) Liaison GSM/GPRS Point of sale, Internet, Call Center User profile 8 GPS Frequent user Occasional user

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 è The automatic system Vehicles equiped with an On Board Unit (OBU) Value Added Services ETC Center N è è GPS Payment information Autonomous system Possible future telematics services Accounting/ Value added services Location Value Added Services OBU 9 Forwarding agency

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 10 The O. B. U

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 l Distribution of OBU Network of 1800 fitters à installation in less than 4 h à in operation 6 months before system opening l Deposit for OBU gives a credit for future bills l Schedule for vehicles fitting à à 11 150 000 before opening 350 000 after one year

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 l l 12 Additional vehicle localisation Broadcasting beacons (infrared) Complementary to GPS Used in difficult reception zones Or when GPS does not provide enough accuracy

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 n The manual reservation system An alternative access to the automatic system ETC Center - points of sale, - Internet, - Call Center. n 13 Open to all (non discriminatory) Call Centre Internet Point of sale

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 The “Point of Sales” POS prototype - 3 500 POS to install 14

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 15 Location of the POS

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 The enforcement is based on licence plate recognition (authorised by law) l Automatic enforcement à l Stationnary enforcement à l 16 Stoppage of the vehicles by Police Mobile enforcement à l classification and identification of the vehicles Police vehicles in traffic flow Enforcement at factory offices

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 300 gantries 17 Automatic enforcement

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Mobile enforcement 278 vehicles for mobile enforcement 18

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 Enforcement at factory offices Staff of 40 shifts 19

ETC Seminar 26/09/02 System performance The required performances are : l l l Automatic system : 99% of transactions OK Manual system : 99% of POS available, 24 h/24 , 7 days/7 Enforcement : à à 20 minimum 10% of vehicles checked identification rate of 70%