France's first toll-free toll, with deferred payment, will be tested from "early February" at the Boulay-Moselle interchange on the A4 motorway, Tuesday said the North and East Motorways Company. France (Sanef).
The traditional barrier of this interchange, at exit 38 of the A4 motorway (to and from Metz), will be replaced by a gantry equipped with cameras and sensors that will identify the vehicles, which can pass without stopping.
Objective: to remove the traffic jams. The idea is to remove the traffic jams on this stretch, which is widely used for home-work relations, a spokesman told reporters.
The motorist will actually have ten days to pay for his passage - € 1.30 at this exit-- online or on a terminal of payment installed on the carpark near the portico. It will also be able to obtain a payment label, which will make it possible to use a prepaid pass or to subscribe. The classic subscription with a Liber-t badge is obviously valid.
A system already used abroad. In case of non-payment within ten days, he will have to pay 20 euros penalty, according to Sanef.
This system called "free-flow" is already widely used abroad (Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, etc.), especially by the Spanish group Abertis, parent company of Sanef.
Free-flow management will create new human needs. "The next project is to move all of Normandy in 'free-flow.' Currently, we stop five times between Paris-La Défense and Caen on the A14 and the A13," said the spokesman. word. Sanef hopes to get there by the end of 2021, according to him.
The removal of toll barriers would remove many traffic jams and save 10 million liters of fuel per year on the motorway between Paris and Normandy, calculated Sanef. And contrary to what one might think, it should lead the company to strengthen its teams because the management of "free-flow" will create new needs, said a spokesman.