11.07.2013
Fuel cards to finish registration for BelToll usage
MINSK, 11 July (BelTA) – Users of the Belarusian digital road toll collection system BelToll have been granted the ability to make transactions using fuel cards, the BelToll press service told BelTA.
As from 11 July users can finish the registration process, get an onboard unit using cashless payments in all the open BelToll offices and in offices of fuel card issuers, including Belorusneft, Berlio, E100, Eurowag, and Belavtostrada.
The press service specified that fuel card operators will take care of all the steps involved in submitting road user data and getting the documents required for registration.
Companies with a large number of vehicles are invited to carry out registration via fuel card issuers and choose consumption-based billing when signing the toll road usage contract. If the company elects to do so, it will have to sign one contract for the entire vehicle fleet while the refund value of an onboard device and the actual road toll usage will be paid for using fuel cards.
Payments for the passage along toll roads can also be submitted on the basis of the contract using consumption-based billing, which is recommended for corporations with a small vehicle fleet (up to five vehicles). Then passage fees can be submitted in service outlets in cash or non-cash transfers.
BelTA reported earlier that the Belarusian digital road toll collection system BelToll will go commercial on 1 August 2013. The system has been operating in test mode since 1 July and will start billing users on 1 August.
No exceptions will be made for those, who fail to observe the toll road network usage rules. All the billable vehicles have to be registered with BelToll and equipped with onboard devices, stated Michael Gschnitzer, Director for International Sales at Kapsch TrafficCom AG.
Belarus will have a total of 815km of toll roads, including the entire length of M1/E30 motorway Brest (Kozlovichi) – Minsk – the Russian border (Redki) and some sections of the motorways M2 Minsk – the National Airport Minsk, M3 Minsk-Vitebsk, M4 Minsk-Mogilev, M5/E271 Minsk-Gomel, and M6/E28 Minsk – Grodno – the Polish border (Bruzgi).
In line with Belarus president decree No. 426 of 27 September 2012 vehicles registered in the Customs Union member states (Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan) with the admissible total weight of 3.5 tonnes and less will be exempt from road toll. Free passage will be granted to scooters and motorbikes, wheeled tractors and self-propelled vehicles, emergency vehicles, and vehicles used for defense and law enforcement purposes. Road toll will not be applicable to private buses used for urban passenger transportation, vehicles used for emergency medical aid, mitigation of emergencies or the transportation of humanitarian cargoes.
The Austrian company Kapsch TrafficCom AG, the investor, will spend over 267 million to implement the project to create the digital road toll collection system BelToll in Belarus. The investment contract specifies that Belarus will take over the ownership of the system stage by stage once the said stage is commissioned by the investor.
The main advantage of the digital system is that drivers will not have to stop to pay for vehicle passage the way they do now. The new technologies will allow vehicles to proceed at top speed without switching lanes while the road toll will be collected automatically. To make it happen, the roads will be fitted with relevant gateways equipped with laser sensors, video and photo cameras to record the passage of vehicles. Onboard units to pay for the vehicle passage have to be installed in vehicles, as a rule, on the windshield. Devices for cars and devices for trucks are different in size.
As from 11 July users can finish the registration process, get an onboard unit using cashless payments in all the open BelToll offices and in offices of fuel card issuers, including Belorusneft, Berlio, E100, Eurowag, and Belavtostrada.
The press service specified that fuel card operators will take care of all the steps involved in submitting road user data and getting the documents required for registration.
Companies with a large number of vehicles are invited to carry out registration via fuel card issuers and choose consumption-based billing when signing the toll road usage contract. If the company elects to do so, it will have to sign one contract for the entire vehicle fleet while the refund value of an onboard device and the actual road toll usage will be paid for using fuel cards.
Payments for the passage along toll roads can also be submitted on the basis of the contract using consumption-based billing, which is recommended for corporations with a small vehicle fleet (up to five vehicles). Then passage fees can be submitted in service outlets in cash or non-cash transfers.
BelTA reported earlier that the Belarusian digital road toll collection system BelToll will go commercial on 1 August 2013. The system has been operating in test mode since 1 July and will start billing users on 1 August.
No exceptions will be made for those, who fail to observe the toll road network usage rules. All the billable vehicles have to be registered with BelToll and equipped with onboard devices, stated Michael Gschnitzer, Director for International Sales at Kapsch TrafficCom AG.
Belarus will have a total of 815km of toll roads, including the entire length of M1/E30 motorway Brest (Kozlovichi) – Minsk – the Russian border (Redki) and some sections of the motorways M2 Minsk – the National Airport Minsk, M3 Minsk-Vitebsk, M4 Minsk-Mogilev, M5/E271 Minsk-Gomel, and M6/E28 Minsk – Grodno – the Polish border (Bruzgi).
In line with Belarus president decree No. 426 of 27 September 2012 vehicles registered in the Customs Union member states (Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan) with the admissible total weight of 3.5 tonnes and less will be exempt from road toll. Free passage will be granted to scooters and motorbikes, wheeled tractors and self-propelled vehicles, emergency vehicles, and vehicles used for defense and law enforcement purposes. Road toll will not be applicable to private buses used for urban passenger transportation, vehicles used for emergency medical aid, mitigation of emergencies or the transportation of humanitarian cargoes.
The Austrian company Kapsch TrafficCom AG, the investor, will spend over 267 million to implement the project to create the digital road toll collection system BelToll in Belarus. The investment contract specifies that Belarus will take over the ownership of the system stage by stage once the said stage is commissioned by the investor.
The main advantage of the digital system is that drivers will not have to stop to pay for vehicle passage the way they do now. The new technologies will allow vehicles to proceed at top speed without switching lanes while the road toll will be collected automatically. To make it happen, the roads will be fitted with relevant gateways equipped with laser sensors, video and photo cameras to record the passage of vehicles. Onboard units to pay for the vehicle passage have to be installed in vehicles, as a rule, on the windshield. Devices for cars and devices for trucks are different in size.