BRATISLAVA 12th August (WEBNOVINY) — The electronic road toll collection for vehicles over 3.5 tons brought in over EUR 76.5 million to the state budget in seven months of this year. Of the collection, EUR 32.75 million was paid by foreign road carriers. The day of the highest e-toll collection in the seventh month was July 6, when EUR 600.47 thousand was collected, reported SkyToll as the operator of the toll collection system. At the end of July, 188,161 vehicles were registered in the toll system. Defined charged sections of highways, dual carriageways, and first class roads were used by an average of 28,401 vehicles subject to toll daily in July.
„The evaluation of the statistical data of the operation of the complex electronic toll collection service for the first six months shows that transit traffic intensity in Slovakia is higher than originally anticipated. The roads are burdened mainly by trucks weighing over 12 tons, and nearly 100,000 registered tolled vehicles in this category are foreign,“ stated Chairman of the Board of Director and General Director of SkyToll Matej Okali. Of the total number of registered vehicles weighing over 12 tons, only 16 percent were Slovak. The number of foreign vehicles is almost 100,000, while the 30,419 vehicles that made up the majority were from Poland. Polish carriers especially use the north-south transit corridor Svrcinovec – Cunovo.
The highway D2 from Brodske to Cunovo is the most used transit route. Nearly 75 percent of overall e-toll collection on defined sections of D2 highway were paid by foreign hauliers, in the first half of the year. „The operators of vehicles from the Czech Republic and Hungary paid nearly EUR 3.5 million of this amount. Foreign hauliers use more than two-thirds of the total number of registered board units,“ the SkyToll further stated.
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