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Innovation in toll collection: Cashless and InteroperableWe don’t have the choice!

Arnaud HARY – Business Development Directoremovis / Abertis Mobility Services

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48th ASECAP STUDY & INFORMATION DAYS - 10th of November 2021

Cashless and Interoperable: We don’t have the choice!

• Market trends are clearly in favour of cashless and interoperable• Technology is available, proven, efficient• Paying for roads is (still) not so easy to accept so we have to make it

simple


Market Trends of Tolling Solutions

In the following years, the market shares are going to evolvetowards solutions such as open road tolling and road user charging:

Market share

Type of infrastructure Solutions Tolling scheme PresentMed. term(3-5 Years)

Long term(10-20 years)

Geographicalregion,

Networks1. Road user charging (RUC).

Revenue scheme:Tariff based on km travelledand/or occupancy

Interurban road,urban tolled motorways,

Bridgesand tunnels

2. Open road (free flow tolling)

Revenue scheme:Tariff based on a fixed priceor variable based on congestion (Express, managed lanes)

3. Barrier road (Traditional tolling) Revenue scheme:Tariff based on a fixed price

Cities4. Congestion zone

Congestion scheme:Tariff based on the use of the space in a certain period

5. Low emission zone Compliance scheme:Tariff based on the pollution of the vehicle


Technology is available, proven, efficient

• Free flow is the tolling of today• Truck Tolling is there in Europe for more than 15 years and still

spreading• What will come is also cashless:

• LEZ / Congestion Charging• RUC is there in the US for light vehicles

• Pilots already done (and still running as small scale live program): Oregon and Utah• 1st real scale program underway in Virginia (still small at the beginning but ready for large

scale)• …


Voluntary RevenueProcurement

Voluntary RevenueLive

Neutral Studying Pilots done,live or to come

Mandatory RevenueLive

Mandatory RevenueProcurement

The future of tolling is cashless

Tender running


Paying for roads: make it simple

• COVID 19 have proven that we are heading for less cash payments in real life but only if it is easier:

• From BCE study (2017): Cash is still #1 in current life transactions numbers = 79% vs 19% for credit card.

• It is stronger in Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Slovenia) and Southern Europe (Greece, Chypre, Malta)

• In Netherlands, Estonia, Finland, cash is less than 54%• Actualisation in 2019 (before COVID): Cash is still #1 in current life

transactions numbers = 73% vs 24% for credit card• Contactless payment is pushing forward as well:

• Between 2012 to 2017, Contactless payment in France multiplied by 1000!• After COVID?

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