The Future EU “Road Package”
Emanuela Stocchi
Director of International Affairs
AISCAT, Rome – Italy
An overview of the European Union
• 28 Member States
• 24 official languages
• nearly 507 Mln of
inhabitants
• nearly 4.5 Mln of Km²
• GDP growth: 0,3%*
* = fourth quarter of 2014 compared to previous quarter
(Sources: EUROSTAT: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu and
TRADINGECONOMICS
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/gdp-growth)
The EU Tolling
Industry:
ASECAP the
“European IBTTA”
Some ASECAP key figures
• 21 Members (16 full + 5
associates)
• 187 tolling companies
• 48,265.01 toll kms in operation
• 26,313.65 Mln Euros of toll
revenues
• 27,346 ETC lanes (majority with
DSRC technology, few systems
with GNSS technology, very few
free-flow systems)
• 26,660,884 ETC subscribers
Source: ASECAP Statistical Bulletin 2014
• Out of 27,346 ETC lanes:
• More than19,000 use DSRC
technology;
• 6,745 (in Germany only for HLs)
and 1,132 (in the Slovak Republic)
use GNSS technology;
• in Austria 14 ETC lanes are
equipped with video-toll systems
only for LVs;
• in Ireland some ramp plazas use
free-flow systems.
A new EU with New Policy Orientations
• New legislative mandate
2014-2020
• New EU Institutions in place
• Need of boosting
competitiveness, fostering
growth, helping jobs’ creation
in the EU
• Revision of several EU
policies, included
transportation
• Proposal for a new “Road
Package” in 2016
Image source: bmeia.gov.at
Charging of Heavy
Goods Vehicles
(HGVs) in the EU
EU policy orientations (1)
• Need to look for sustainable infrastructure financing
• Vehicles become more energy efficient and use alternative fuels:
revenues from fuel excise duties will fall.
• Budgetary constraints: the capacity of governments to finance
transport infrastructure from tax payers' money is seriously
hampered in the coming years.
• User charging could provide alternative and sustainable source of
money while attracting private investors through Public Private
Partnerships to maintain good quality infrastructure, a key asset
for the competiveness of the EU economy.
EU policy orientations (2)
• Promote user pays and polluter pays principles
• Revise and simplify the existing legislation
(Eurovignette) to achieve greater consistency among
National legislative frameworks
• Mandatory inclusion of all vehicles (HLs and LVs) into
congestion charging systems
• Foster IOP of ETC systems throughout EU, linking
road charging revision with IOP deployment
• Legislative proposal expected in the first half of 2016
ETC IOP in the EU:
from EETS to REETS …. just to start with
• A specific EU legal framework for a wide, harmonized ETC
system applicable to the whole EU territory: the EETS (European
Electronic Tolling Service)
• One OBU, one contract
• Three actors: Toll Chargers, EETS providers, road users
• EETS system not fully achieved in time
• Start deploying IOP at Regional level (with 7 Member States)
• REETS project: co-financed by the EC, taking into account “a
stepwise regional approach to EETS deployment”, while looking
at the future objective for a full European coverage.
Thoughts from the EU tolling industry
Positive inputs from the future EU Road Package:
• Widen user pays principle’s application and develop user charging systems
• Promote and attract private sector’s involvement in infrastructure financing
• Earmarking of toll revenues: re-investment in the transportation sector
and
promote tolling as the best tool for building, operating, improving, maintaining
safe, efficient and reliable road infrastructure for the benefit of the users and
the citizens,
a common and shared belief of the tolling industry all around the world
Thank you for your attention!
If you want to contact me:
[email protected]
Sources and acknowledgements:
ASECAP: www.asecap.com
ASFINAG: REETS project leadership
EU: http://ec.europa.eu
European Commission (Transportation Directorate DG MOVE):
http://ec.europa.eu/transportation/index_en.htm
EUROSTAT: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu