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Austria to launch tender for truck toll system

Austrian motorway operator Asfinag is to launch an invitation to tender at the beginning of 2015 for operation of the country’s toll system from 2019. Contracts with Austrian supplier of road tolling systems Kapsch TrafficCom and Raiffeisen Informatik's (R-IT), the IT department of Austrian bank Raiffeisen International (RBI), will expire at the end of 2018. The truck toll was introduced in Austria in 2004 and since then has run smoothly using microwave-based system for toll collection. Asfinag's managi
December 18, 2014 Read time: 1 min
Austrian motorway operator 750 Asfinag is to launch an invitation to tender at the beginning of 2015 for operation of the country’s toll system from 2019. Contracts with Austrian supplier of road tolling systems 4984 Kapsch TrafficCom and Raiffeisen Informatik's (R-IT), the IT department of Austrian bank Raiffeisen International (RBI), will expire at the end of 2018.

The truck toll was introduced in Austria in 2004 and since then has run smoothly using microwave-based system for toll collection. Asfinag's managing director Klaus Schierhackl has hinted that the firm would prefer to keep the current microwave-based system for collecting truck tolls rather than implementing a GPS-based system, which he says would incur significantly higher costs and a higher toll charge.

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