Electronic toll collection on freeways from the beginning of summer this year

According to Fars News Agency, quoting the Transportation Infrastructure Construction and Development Company, Khairullah Khademi stated: The coordination meeting for electronic tolls was held in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, representatives of freeway construction and operation companies and representatives of Rahvar Naja Police. Necessary for the implementation of the paragraph annexed to Note 18 of the single article of the 1401 budget bill of the whole country was considered.

He announced the implementation of electronic toll collection on freeways from the beginning of summer this year and said: ‌ According to this clause in the budget law, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development is obliged to collect toll tolls electronically by the end of June through the participation of non-governmental investors. 1401 to operate.

He said: “All companies for the construction and operation of freeways in order to implement this law are required to provide the necessary equipment for this purpose, collecting physical gates and ease of electronic payment of tolls for compatriots.”

The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development also referred to the concerns of the companies constructing and operating the freeways regarding the collection of tolls and said: “Since the maintenance and repair of freeways is the responsibility of construction companies, these tolls It also provides the national capital of the country, and the lack of cooperation of compatriots in the timely payment of tolls will cause problems for these companies and the depreciation of the country’s roads.

Khademi announced the development of an executive regulation for electronic toll collection and added: “This regulation is being developed using the views of freeway construction companies, in which the method of collecting tolls, being step-by-step, etc. are seen and will be announced after approval.”

‌The CEO of the company for construction and development of the country’s transportation infrastructure continued: reducing travel time, reducing fuel consumption, saving car depreciation, easy payment of tolls, reducing the damage of asphalt procedures at toll gates, part of the benefits of electronic toll collection on freeways Is.

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