Big change with tolls. It affects all drivers
“Road Infrastructure” Agency and “T-Smart Global” EAD have concluded a contract which enables the company, after achieving interoperability with the electronic tolling system, to start providing services related to the collection of tolls for the distance traveled through on-board devices and GPS trackers.
This is the third such contract in a row, which has been concluded in the last six months, the road agency announced.
The contract signed by the chairman of API’s Board of Directors, Eng. Yasen Yordanov, and the company’s executive directors, Hristo Daskalov and Angelina Todorov, is part of the second stage of the General Terms and Conditions for electronic toll collection. With it, it is possible to start a procedure for proving interoperability.
The company was registered as a national service provider in the National Electronic Register of National Service Providers for Electronic Toll Collection on May 11, 2022, but the procedure had not yet reached the contract signing stage.
Once it is already a fact, it will be possible to proceed to the integration process. The company will have to successfully pass a series of tests within a year, after which the contract will enter into force at the stage of technical operation and the company will be able to provide services to users of the toll road network, according to API.
“T-Smart Global” EAD is the fifth company with which the Agency has signed a contract for the provision of a service for the electronic collection of tolls and the third in the last six months, the Agency reminds. On September 15 of this year, API signed a contract with “Toll Bulgaria” Ltd., and on November 14 of this year with “Nipo Electronics” Ltd.
After successfully passing a series of tests within a year, the contracts with the companies will enter into force in the field of technical operation and they will be able to provide services to the drivers.
Up to now, with two national service providers – “Intelligent Traffic Systems” EAD and “Digital Smart Infrastructure” AD, the operational phase has been reached and the companies offer the sale of tolls – e-vignette and toll.
Revenues from toll fees from the beginning of the year to date are BGN 45,308,089.61, the road agency announced at the beginning of the month. Of these, BGN 3,896,590.61 are from route maps, and BGN 41,411,499.05 from toll declarations.
About BGN 2.2 million was collected from the control activity – imposed compensatory fees and acts for establishing administrative violations. With this, the total revenues from road fees – e-vignette, toll and control activities, in January 2024 are over 78 BGN million
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