BRATISLAVA, January 19, (WEBNOVINY) — The Slovak Republic collected EUR 154.1 million through e-toll in 2011, which means an annualized increase by 8.6 percent. As electronic toll system operator SkyToll informed on Thursday, EUR 295.9 million were collected in two years of the system’s operation.
In 2011, collected e-toll for the use of selected highways and dual carriage-way sections amounted to almost EUR 98.7 million. Further EUR 55.2 million were collected for the use of selected stretches of first-category roads for which e-toll is charged. Foreign hauliers contributed 43 percent to overall e-toll collection. Most of them came from Poland (17 percent), from the Czech Republic (9 percent) and from Hungary (5 percent).
Up to 70 percent of e-toll paid in 2011 was pre-paid. Hauliers with vehicles over 12 tons paid 108.7 million euros securing them the first place in the share of paid toll. Over 199,200 active on-board units were registered in the system as of December 31, 2011. The number of vehicles over 3.5 tons using paid road stretches increased in 2011 by 2.5 percent to some 27,921 vehicles per day.
In December, collected e-toll for the use of selected highways and dual carriage-way sections amounted to almost EUR 7.5 million and reached almost EUR 3.8 million for the use of selected stretched of first-category roads for which e-toll is charged. The state obtained over EUR 400,000 from transit hauliers within the toll ticketing system in December. Of overall December toll collection, foreign transport operators contributed with over 43 percent. An average of 23,236 vehicles a day weighing over 3.5 tons used the selected road stretches for which toll is charged.
SkyToll signed the contract with the National Highway Company to build and operate the e-toll system in Slovakia in January 2009. The toll system was put into operation on January 1, 2010. Vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tons have to pay toll for over 2,400 kilometers of highways, dual carriageways and selected first category roads in Slovakia.
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