Worldwide electronic toll collection market to double between 2016 and 2025

Ptolemus Consulting Group has released the 2015 edition of its electronic toll collection (ETC) Global Study 2015, which indicates that the average penetration of electronic tolling by revenue in Europe is set to increase from 71 per cent in 2015 to 86 per cent in 2025. The growth is lead by the increase use of road user charging schemes dedicated to trucks following the first steps made by Germany.
June 15, 2015 Read time: 2 mins

8147 Ptolemus Consulting Group has released the 2015 edition of its electronic toll collection (ETC) Global Study 2015, which indicates that the average penetration of electronic tolling by revenue in Europe is set to increase from 71 per cent in 2015 to 86 per cent in 2025. The growth is lead by the increase use of road user charging schemes dedicated to trucks following the first steps made by Germany.

Other key findings include revenues from road charging are set to nearly triple from 2015 to 2025 to reach over US$190 billion and the global road charging market is set to grow to over 400 million active subscriptions by 2025, following a rush of 14 new nationwide programmes implemented between 2013 and today.

However, despite the EETS directive and other interoperability programmes, none of the new ETC programmes share any resemblance nor allow for interoperability with their neighbours.

A case in point comes from the European Commission’s home country where the forthcoming 11th European truck RUC programme in Belgium will not even use axle count as toll criteria - one of the very few commonalities between the other schemes.

Despite the regulations restricting the choice of toll technologies in Europe, GNSS and DSRC are still competing with new eVignette schemes. Outside Europe, RFID is becoming the go-to technology for free flow ETC. In fact from 2016, RFID will become the most popular device technology, overtaking DSRC in number of unit sold. The share of cumulative ETC subscriptions based on RFID technology will peak at 47 per cent from 2019 and by 2025 Ptolemus estimates there will be more than 178 million ETC subscriptions based on RFID systems worldwide.

In Europe, Italy is today the biggest ETC market in Europe with 8.5 million Telepass customers but Turkey is expected to take its lead in 2016 with nearly 9 million subscribers. The 650-page reference document can be downloaded (link %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal http://www.ptolemus.com/etc-study/ Visit www.ptolemus.com/etc-study/ false http://www.ptolemus.com/etc-study/ false false%>) from the Ptolemus website.

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