WHAT IS TOLL?

1. Toll is the revenue collected by a company, and considered as assets of it’s budget, from all or a category of the users of a road infrastructure or a road network, for one or several of the following purposes:
To finance
To build
To maintain
To operate
To improve
the above mentioned road infrastructure or road network
2. Within ASECAP, most members are responsible for each and every of the above responsibilities.
3. Within ASECAP,toll is in principle distance-related. Even though in some cases it is time related for certain categories of users. all ASECAP members consider that toll sound, in the future, be primarily distance-related, even if other criteria could be taken into taken into account in it’s calculation.

WHY THE TOLL?

Are the toll facilities responsible for causing or increasing traffic congestion?
The answer of the modern tolled motorways is negative.
In addition, the European Motorways member of ASECAP work firmly towards an inter operable EFC (Electronic Fee Collection) system, which will further facilitate the traffic and will increase significantly the average traffic speed through the toll plazas.

Is it true that the tolls represent additional taxation for the road users?
The answer is simple for real tolls: the road users pay a toll to the concession holding company for the use of a specific infrastructure and the facilities and services provided. The same users also pay taxes to the states. However, tolls can not be considered as additional taxation for the user, because State revenues from taxes are also used finance other social goods, while the tolls constitute a direct user payment for the quality services he or she receives when using the road network in question