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Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen

Road-Pricing Symposium Key Biscayne - November 21. 2003. Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen. I. Background Pällmann-Commission Implementation / Status IV. Position of the Logistic Industry Effects to be expected VI. Outlook. I. Background

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Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen

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  1. Road-Pricing Symposium Key Biscayne - November 21. 2003 Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen • I. Background • Pällmann-Commission • Implementation / Status • IV. Position of the Logistic Industry • Effects to be expected • VI. Outlook

  2. I. Background Germany’s Autobahnen are built, operated and maintained based on the Federal Budget to date. In 1995 a time-related toll for heavy goods vehicles (HGV) using the Autobahnen was introduced in Germany and 5 other European countries. In 1999 the German government decided to introduce distance-related tolling of heavy goods vehicles using the Autobahnen in 2003. Political goals in context with the introduction of the toll claimed to be: (1) Additional money for financing the Federal Transportation Infrastructure (2) Shifting freight transportation from road to rail and inland waterways (3) Improving the competitiveness of the German Logistic Industry Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicleson Germany‘s Autobahnen

  3. Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicleson Germany‘s Autobahnen

  4. In 1999 the government appointed a High Commission “Financing the Federal Transportation Infrastructure”. Central recommendation of the commission: “The financing of the Federal Transportation Infrastructure should be converted step by step from financing on the basis of the Federal Budget tofinancing by the user” . In case of the Federal Highways a full conversion is possible ! Advantages: -No dependency of the changing impacts on the Federal Budget -Direct context between usage and payment -Efficient instrument of traffic management -Separating the discussions about taxes and infrastructure costs -Foreign user pay the same as German user Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen II. Pällmann-Commission / 1

  5. II. Pällmann-Commission/ 2 Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicleson Germany‘s Autobahnen Recommendation regarding the amount of the toll: “Heavy trucks should be charged an average toll of 25 Pfg. per vehicle kilometre”: > 30 Pfg. based on the internal costs > minus 5. Pfg. as starting signal for a compensation on the tax side Regarding the technical system for charging the toll, the commission recommended: “The system should ensure upward-compatibility and interoperability”: > usable for all types of cars and all kinds of roads > compatible with other charging-technologies > onboard-unit suitable as platform for tolling + ITS-components

  6. III. Implementation / Status Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen Final decision for the operator of the tolling-system has been made at the end of September 2002. Operator will be the “Toll-Collect-Consortium”; Partners: Daimler-Chrysler, German Telekom, Cofiroute. All parties underestimated the difficulties involved in establishing such a complex system. The start of the tolling had to be postponed until spring / summer 2004. The government decided to allocate 50 % of the net-toll-revenue to the railways and the inland-waterways.

  7. IV. Position of the Logistic Industry Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen No principal refusal of the tolling of HGV’s using Autobahnen based on internal costs. Introduction of the HGV-tolling will be used as a means for achieving even better conditions compared with the foreign competitors ! Call for the exclusive use of the total net-revenue for improving the Federal-Roads-System. Additional burden must be passed on to the clients .

  8. V. Effects to be expected Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen > Qualified logistic enterprises will increase their productivity > Freelance trucker will have difficulties > Increase of the transportation fees > Increase of the consumer prices > Nearly no shift from road torail > Substantial shift from Autobahnen to toll-free highways > Pressure to expand the tolling to other roads

  9. VI. Outlook Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen Distance-related tolling HGV’s using Autobahnen is only the first step of a general change from tax-financing to user-financing. European Commission (European Transport Policy 2010): “The thrust of Community action should be gradually to replace existing transport system taxes with more effective instruments for integrating infrastructure costs and external costs.” The chosen technical configuration is the future of road-pricing. The Toll-Collect-System complies with the EU-proposal for a technical directive regarding the tolling.

  10. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Kossak Moorweg 6 D – 22453 Hamburg Phone: ++49 – 40 – 553 24 58 Fax: ++49 – 40 – 553 65 59 Email: drkossak@aol.com Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany‘s Autobahnen

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