WHAT IS TOLL?

1. Toll is the revenue collected, and considered as assets of its budget, by a company upon the whole or a category of the users of a road infrastructure or a road network, for one or several of the following purposes:

Finance
Build
Maintain
Operate
Improve

the above mentioned  road infrastructure or  road network.

2. Within ASECAP, the most part of the members are responsible  of the whole of the above  responsibilities.

WHY THE TOLLS?

ARE THE TOLL FACILITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR CAUSING OR INCREASING TRAFFIC CONGESTION?

IS IT TRUE THAT THE TOLLS REPRESENT A DOUBLE TAXATION FOR THE ROAD USERS?

WHERE DOES THE MONEY PAID FOR THE TOLLS GO?

ARE THE TOLL FACILITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR CAUSING OR INCREASING TRAFFIC CONGESTION?

The answer of the modern tolled motorways is negative.
The European Motorways members of ASECAP work firmly towards an interoperable EFC (Electronic Fee Collection) system, which will further facilitate the traffic and will increase significantly the average traffic speed through the toll plazas.

IS IT TRUE THAT THE TOLLS REPRESENT A DOUBLE TAXATION FOR THE ROAD USERS?

The answer is simple: the road users pay a toll for the use of a specific infrastructure and the facilities provided. The same users also pay taxes on fuel used when they travel on the toll roads. However, it cannot be considered as a double taxation for the users, because the fuel tax paid is also applied to other social goods.

WHERE DOES THE MONEY PAID FOR THE TOLLS GO?

The modern road operator does not simply offer a "transit service" to the road users, but a real "product", which needs a series of investments.
The toll revenues can effectively be re-invested in order to improve the technicalities of motorways infrastructures and to guarantee, among other things, a higher level of road safety, the respect of the legislative and regulatory framework for the protection of environment, the provision of a series of services linked to the info-mobility (i.e.: information in real time about traffic evolution, meteorological conditions, tourist and cultural events happening in the region crossed by a motorway section, etc.).