The Swiss Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (BAZG) has awarded a €74.5m (£63.6m) contract to Kapsch TrafficCom for the supply of a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) road fee collection system.
In addition to the construction of the necessary roadside infrastructure and implementation of the system technology, which is based on video sensors, the contract includes an eight-year maintenance and operating agreement, until at least the end of 2032.
The performance-based HGV charge is a federal levy that depends on the total weight, emission level and kilometres driven in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
It must be paid for all motor vehicles and their trailers that have a permissible total weight of more than 3.5 tonnes, are used for the transport of goods, are registered in Switzerland and abroad, and drive on the public road network in Switzerland.
The system is used to register the various vehicle classes and to identify their owners at precise locations and times, to ultimately ensure the correct tolling of heavy goods traffic on Swiss roads.
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It can also be used for other vehicle-related types of control by other executive bodies of the Swiss Confederation.
By means of stationary video sensors, vehicles are recorded at Swiss border crossings as well as inland on the high- and low-ranking road network with the place and time of passage, their license plate number as well as their vehicle type.
This recording process is documented by corresponding image material. It is supplemented by mobile recording units on vehicles, which can be positioned anywhere and at any time throughout Switzerland.
The scope of supply comprises the video sensor system technology for 375 lanes at 89 Swiss border crossing locations, in addition to a further 313 lanes equipped at 90 locations across the country’s high- and low-ranking road network, and the system technology for 28 mobile detection units.
The supporting structures for 74 road network locations will be completely rebuilt as part of the project.
Furthermore, an IT centre will be implemented at the site of the Swiss Federal Office of Information Technology as a post-processing facility for scheduling the complete system technology.
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