This article treats the contracting method to the truck duty in Germany.

Overview

• At the beginning of of 1994 presented the Telekom daughter DeTeMobil as well as the French company SAGEM on a press colloquium a "system for automatic collection of charges by GSM Mobilfunktechnik". Later the Federal Ministry of Transport planning for a field test on A 555 between the cities Cologne and Bonn started few weeks. The tests began still 1994 and became accomplished by the Rhine country. The results were evaluated as "satisfyingly", the system of the mobile motorway fee as "stably and practicably" (heise mobilely).
• In November 1995 the transport minister at that time Matthias Wissmann (CDU) announced the introduction of a stretch-referred truck duty.
• In October 1998 the Red-Green Federal Government decided a so-called anti-pilot program financed by duty.
• On 7 November 1998 Federal Minister of Transport Franz (SPD) communicated, he until 2002 a stretch-referred truck duty will implement. The transport ministers of all Lands of the Federal Republic welcomed the project unanimously. The Mautsystem and its technical infrastructure should be financed, installed and operated by a private enterprise.
• In September 1999 used the government commission3 "traffic infrastructure financing ", after her leader William (1982 - 1991 in the executive committee of the railways, retire 1995) also commission mentioned.
• In January 2000 the contracting method began as negotiation procedure with upstream participation competition.
• In September 2000 the commission struck a stretch-dependent duty in place of the past Vignette pre planned fee: 25 Pfennig (14 cent) per motorway kilometer. Transport minister was at this time pure hard Klimmt (SPD), the advertisement for the truck duty was in full course, the planned starting date was already 1 January 2003.
• On 15 August 2001 the Federal Cabinet decided the introduction of a truck duty on German motorways. The height of the duty is graduated after oh number and pollutant output and is to lie between 14 and 19 cent per kilometer.
• On 12 April 2002 the law came into force for the introduction of stretch-referred fees for the use of federal motorways with heavy commercial motor vehicles (BGBl I, No. 23, P. 1234). It is the legal basis for the introduction of the truck duty.
• In July 2002 the Bietergruppe ETC.de (electronics sat down madly Collect; later madly Collect) in the disputed contracting method against competitive consortia through.

The individual offerers

1. The offering suppl. my shank ETC.de from Berlin with the German Telekom AG, which Daimler Chrysler services (debis) AG as well as the Compagnie Financiere et Industrielle of the Autoroutes (Cofiroute S.A.), France.
2. The offering suppl. my shank AGES duty system GmbH & CO. Kg from Duesseldorf around the man man at that time AG (in the meantime Vodafone) with the Aral AG & CO. Kg, the federal central cooperative traffic e.G., the DKV EURO SERVICE GmbH & CO. Kg, euro Shell Germany GmbH, the commercial company for motor vehicle need GmbH & CO. Kg, the UTA union tank cornerstone GmbH & CO. Kg.
3. The Swiss Fela management AG.

The motives of the offerers

ETC.de with DaimlerChrysler services were from the outset fixed on a government inspection department supported Mautsystem, since it fits itself in exactly into the business fields of its subsidiaries. Thus the German Telekom places its portable radio net to the data communication of the vehicle OBUs to the central reservation computer to the order and takes over and the rendering of invoice opposite the duty customer. DaimlerChrysler wanted to finally offer with the integrated concept "duty and more" the traffic telematics services to its caring daughter DaimlerChrysler services Mobility management surface covering. Over the Government inspection department Mautsystem the possibility existed of being able cost-neutrally to insert about 500 EUR necessary for the telematics services expensive GOVERNMENT INSPECTION DEPARTMENT and portable radio modules for it into a majority of the trucks operating in Germany. Here should late transport enterprises the possibility have of taking up beyond the pure duty payment additional telematics services of DaimlerChrysler against payment for the optimization of the business procedures from freight pursuit up to the fleet management. Further one wanted to define and occupy the technical standards and interfaces for a future European Mautsystem.

AGES had already cared for by 31 August 2003 in Germany for the heavy traffic starting from 12 t zGG valid time-related duty Vignettensystem. With man man as portable radio network carriers it wanted to likewise introduce a Mautsystem on government inspection department basis. In contrast to ETC.de AGES set with the data exchange from OBU to the central computer not on GSM, but on GPRS.

The Fela management AG, based 1997 in Diessenhofen/Switzerland, is manufacturer of electronic components and traffic telematics systems. On 1 January 2001 an electronically raised, distance-dependent duty for truck started the LSVA in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (achievement-dependent heavy traffic delivery) starting from 3,5 t. Fela is developer and supplier of the charging equipment Tripon used for it.

Contrary to the German truck duty the LSVA becomes due on all Swiss roads, not only on the motorways. The technical conversion facilitates completely substantially. The Tripon system must only determine thereby, which distances were put back within a duty-requiring area and non as with the German system - which road types thereby were used. The past experiences are throughout positive according to Swiss Federal Office for regional development.

The Mautsystem planned by it for Germany would have been based on the DSRC technology. Here the vehicles are provided with a relatively cheap transponder (manufacturing costs about 40 EUR). The duty-requiring vehicles drive through with this electronic characteristic duty bridges, which are set up between a ramp and the next departure of a duty-requiring road in each case. The disadvantages of the higher infrastructure costs should be compensated by the more favorable operating cost. In Switzerland the operating cost lies with approximately 8%. Erroneous way is often assumed these 8% with that would have resulted Swiss technology also in Germany. The concrete offer of the Fela management AG moved however in the absolutely identical context of madly Collect: it planned annual operating cost of 630 million euro, thus just as roughly 25% of the annual incomes (see among other things last paragraph).

The motives of the clients

Some commentators assumed already in the year 2001 that the exit of the procedure would be certain long and saw in the assignment at ETC.de the effort, which stock exchange value of the Telekom to support (computer week 2001-12-14). Others assume the policy looked for task ranges for the planned European satellite project Galileo: The European Union commission was endeavored 2003 to generally prescribe for a future, European Union far truck duty starting from 2012 a satellite-based system. It is undisputed that the Federal Ministry of Transport with the structure of the system would not only like to raise duty:

Germany becomes with to a large extent automatic collection of the truck duty the technological outrider in Europe and world-wide. This opens new market chances for the industry and secures jobs. The world-wide first realization of such a system can in Germany in addition also on other fields of the information technology an innovative advance release. Federal Ministry for traffic, building and housing, facts to the truck duty, 2003 - 2004.

This kind of the industrial policy of the Federal Ministry of Transport tempts many journalists again and again to comparisons between the duty introduction and the Transrapid.

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