Toll roads: what are their features and benefits

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Toll roads - a high-speed road tolls on which a driver will be charged. It has several features and benefits, as opposed to the usual route. In Ukraine, such a service has no, but the start of construction is planned in the next few years.

Such kind of roads familiar to those who He traveled through Europe by car. There they are, we can say very often to facilitate travel between settlements.

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Price. On the road the money charged for the service and maintenance of the road, so as usual - this is a commercial project finance which puts a private investor. The lowest rate in Europe - 0.04 Euro per kilometer. Payment of highways in different countries are different. The first method of payment in the part of the state (for example, in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Switzerland) - "vignettes", when money is charged for a certain period of time ( "travel" for a week, month, year). The second way - "pay for part of the road", I mean, you need to pay for the passed region (Great Britain, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Croatia). Separate type of toll road, which is used in almost all countries - a site for a "special pay ", is payable when the movement in certain parts of the route - tunnels, bridges, crossing to ferry.

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It is important to understand that by using the service of the toll road, you do not go broke, but on the contrary - save in autotravel EuropeAs well as a way to bypass a less favorable: 2-3 times longer, less expensive, less allowable speed, respectively, greater fuel consumption.

Infrastructure.Along the toll road infrastructure is much more developed - every 2-3 km cafeterias, filling stations, the quality of pavement better permissible speed is higher - up to 150 km / h.

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Monitoring the traffic on the highway. On these highways there are a large number of bands - 5-6 in one direction, and if you happen to crash, the corresponding service will be called immediately. Similarly, during a snowfall or poor road conditions. So that the formation of traffic jams on toll roads - just excluded.

The situation in Ukraine. The recently passed a bill that allows the construction of such a highway in our country. The main task - to find investors who would be willing to invest in such a venture.

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Daily traffic on the busiest roads in Ukraine - 10-12 thousand cars, and in order to toll roads paid off, you need about 18 thousand. However, by 2020, plans to launch the first toll roads on the route Kiev - White Church and Krakovets - Lviv.

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