Agreement on Electronic Toll Collection Signed with Hungary – New System Pertains to First and Second B Grade Roads and Trucks Over 7.5 Tons

Serbia and Hungary have signed the Agreement on Cooperation in Electronic Road Toll Collection on busy traffic routes which are not highways. The minister of construction, transport and infrastructure of Serbia, Goran Vesic, who signed the agreement with the minister of construction and transport of Hungary, Janos Lazar, pointed out that Hungary had had a system of toll collection and protection of local roads for a long time.

– With the agreement, we have agreed for that system to start working in Serbia too. The road toll collection system pertains to busy IB and IIB grade roads which are not highways and pertains only to trucks over 7.5 tons – Vesic said and added that that would enable the protection of local roads, because, as he said, most of them are under pressure.

– In addition to the toll collection itself, we will also measure the axle load in the asphalt, which means that we will be able to protect our roads – Vesic said.

As he pointed out, most truck drivers which use local roads overload their trucks, thereby additionally destroying the roads.

He emphasized that there was no European country with which Serbia cooperated better than with Hungary.

– In the next four to five years, there will be no country in the neighborhood with which Serbia will have a better traffic connection than Hungary. That is proof of our cooperation – he said.

Vesic reminded that, in that period, the fast railroad from Belgrade to Budapest, which would continue to Skopje and Sofia, and then also to Istanbul and Thessaloniki, would be put into operation, as well as that, in the current month, the railroad from Subotica to Szeged would be put into operation.

– We will also be connected with the fast route which begins in Backi Breg. We will have three equal border crossings – Vesic pointed out and added that, as a state, Serbia expected to earn around EUR 100 million from that system in the first year, which would be invested in local roads.

The Hungarian minister said that he would hand over a development project to Serbia based on which it would be able to build its own road toll collection system.

– That will bring income which Serbia will be able to invest in the maintenance of roads of a lower grade. Hungary sees Serbia as a strategic ally. The main objective of our cooperation is for Hungary to be a passage to the west. That is why it is necessary for crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border to be cheaper, quicker and more effective – Janos Lazar pointed out and noted that the decision was that it was necessary to build new border crossings on the border between Serbia and Hungary.

As he added, Hungary will build a new bridge on the Danube near Mohacs and reconstruct the three border crossings with Serbia.

Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture Republike Srbije

Ministry of Construction and Transport of Hungary

Goran Vesić

Janos Lazar

City of Subotica

Skopje

Sofia

Thessaloniki

Istanbul

Szeged

Bački Breg

Mohacs

electronic toll collection

road toll

Belgrade Budapest fast railroad