For Q1 2025 carriers paid 4.66 billion crowns in tolls

Prague, 23 April 2025 – Toll collection in March increased by 11.7% year-on-year. Carriers paid a total of CZK 1.66 billion, which is the highest amount in history since 2007. CzechToll processed more than 103 million toll transactions, up 6% year-on-year. The increase in the toll collection revenue and the number of transactions was caused, among other things, by an extra working day compared to March 2024.

For Q1 of this year carriers paid 4.66 billion crowns in tolls. This was 644 million crowns more year-on-year. As much as 89% of the total toll revenues since the beginning of the year have been paid by carriers for driving on motorways, with the remaining 11% coming from tolls collected for driving on the specified sections of 1^st category roads.

Toll rates in the Czech Republic will have a total of four components from 1 March 2024. The highest share is accounted for by the road use charge (almost 77% of total revenues). The second largest part is the charge for external costs associated with CO₂ air pollution (19%). The charge for external costs associated with traffic-based air pollution contributes approximately 3% of revenues and the charge for external costs associated traffic-based noise contributes the remaining 1% of revenues.

The revenues from the collection of tolls from vehicles with a maximum permissible weight of over 3.5 ton go in full to the budget of the State Transport Infrastructure Fund and thus help finance investments in transport infrastructure in the Czech Republic.

At the end of March, 892 thousand vehicles weighing over 3.5 tons were registered in the electronic toll system, of which over 710 thousand vehicles had foreign license plate numbers. For the registered vehicles, CzechToll issued 659 thousand on-board units to carriers.