Kristian Wærsted Chief Engineer

Urban road toll collection in Norway – process, technology and experiences from Oslo

• Kristian Wærsted

• Chief Engineer

• Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA)

Road tolling in Norway

• 70 years of road tolling experience to finance expensive infrastructure (bridges and tunnels)

• More than 100 road toll projects implemented

• Toll collection normally lasts for 15 years

• 44 road toll projects in operation today

• Urban toll systems for the last 20 years

• Point payment only (open systems)

• Norway has been a pioneering country in developing cost efficient road tolling

Tolling Projects in Norway by 2005

• Bergen (1986), our first urban toll ring

• Ålesund* (1987), the first toll plaza with EFC in the world

• The urban toll rings in Oslo (1990) and Trondheim (1991) have been other important pioneering projects

Urban toll rings in Norway – May 2005

The ”Oslo Package 1”

• Why?: To build 50 pre-defined projects in 10 instead of 35 years with state funds only

• Joint venture between Oslo (60%) and the neighbouring county of Akershus (40%)

• Users contribute with 55% of funding

• The toll ring covers all roads in three corridors

• 50% of Oslos population live outside the toll ring

Oslo toll plaza no. 5 on a western arterial

• The subscription lane (”AutoPASS”) has a high capacity, approx. 1600 veh/hour

• Approx. 300 veh/hour capacity in coin machine and attended (”manuell”) lanes

• No expansion of total road area was necessary

Toll plaza no.14 on E6 south

Toll plaza no.11 on E6 north is the largest in Oslo. It has 3+1 AutoPASS lanes