Toll collection will be launched on 125 km of new roads and motorways starting from 1 January 2025

Prague, 16 December 2024 – Carriers paid 1.54 billion crowns for driving on toll roads in November. Toll collections increased by 15% year-on-year, mainly due to the introduction of the fourth component of toll charges involving the CO₂ emissions charge in March this year. The CO₂ emissions charge has long accounted for approximately 15% of the total toll collection. The number of toll transactions processed rose slightly by 1.7% year-on-year to 103 million.

Since the beginning of this year, toll collection has exceeded CZK 15.996 billion. In the first 11 months of the year, the toll collection is up 15.3% compared to last year. Since the launch of the satellite toll system on 1 December 2019, CZK 72.2 billion has been collected in the 60 months of its operation. Toll revenues are an income of the State Transport Infrastructure Fund and are used to finance investments in the repair and development of transport infrastructure in the Czech Republic.

Changes to the Electronic Toll System effective from 1 January 2025

From 1 January 2025, changes will be made to the toll road network. Toll collection will be launched on newly opened sections of motorways (D3, D4, D6, D7, D49 and D55) and 1^st category roads (I/27, I/33, I/58). A part of the I/20 road near the village of Klášter, where a safe crossing with the 3^rd class road was newly built, will also be subject to toll collection. The total length of roads and motorways that will be newly included in the toll road network amounts to 124.91 km. On the other hand, the toll sections of 1^st category roads no. 22, 27, 33 and 58 with a total length of 8.73 km will be abolished.

In accordance with a government regulation, the CO₂ emissions charge will increase slightly starting from 1 January 2025. Depending on the CO₂ class to which a lorry is assigned, the charge will increase by up to 5%. The rates for vehicles in M2 and M3 category, i.e. buses, will remain unchanged.

At the end of November 878 thousand vehicles weighing over 3.5 tons were registered in the electronic toll system, of which over 696 thousand vehicles had foreign license plate numbers. For the registered vehicles, CzechToll issued 659 thousand on-board units to carriers.