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Electronic Tolls
There are some highways in Portugal on which the tolls are electronic only. It means
that there are no cabins and the passing of vehicles is detected by devices placed
at the beginning of those highways.
The highways are identified at the beginning with:
"Electronic toll only".
The highways concerned:
Norte Litoral
- A28: Auto-estrada do
Litoral Norte (Littoral North-highway - between Porto and Vilar de Mouros/Caminha)
Grande Porto
- A4: Porto/Amarante-highway (between Matosinhos and Águas Santas)
- A41:
Circular Regional exterior do Porto (Porto Regional Outer Circular)
- A42: Alfena-Lousada-highway
Centro
(Costa de Prata-region)
- A17: Littoral Center-highway (between Mira and Aveiro)
-
A25: only on the intersections between Esgueira and Angeja (Aveiro-area)
- A29: Auto-estrada
da Costa de Prata (Costa de Prata-highway - between Estarreja and Vila Nova de Gaia)
Payment through electronic devices
in order for the vehicles to use the above mentioned
highways, they should have an electronic device, which must be bought or hired beforehand
at a Service Area (Área de Serviço) alongside the highways or at a post office (CTT/Correios).
There are three types of electronic devices:
Electronic license plate device (Dispositivo
electrónico de matrícula - DEM): the device is linked to the vehicle's license plate
and cannot be transmitted to other cars.
Obtaining: at the highway service areas or
other locations like the post offices and the Via Verde Portugal-shops.
Costs: €27
to purchase + preloading a minimum €10 for light vehicles and €20 for heavy vehicles.
Temporary
device (Dispositivo temporário - DT): the best solution for a short stay, and as
a result for vehicles with a foreign license plate; the license plate is not linked
to the device, therefore, anonymity is guaranteed.
Obtaining: it is necessary to establish
a lease contract with the responsible entities, at the highway service areas or other
locations like the post offices and the Via Verde Portugal-shops.
Costs: deposit of
€27 (that will be given back to the driver when the device is returned in good condition
at the location it was rented from) + pre loading a minimum of €10 for light vehicles
and €20 for heavy vehicles.
Devices from a toll entity (Dispositivo de uma entidade
de cobrança de Portagens - DECP) like Via Verde are also accepted on these highways.
Although the license plate is not linked to the device, it is necessary to establish
a contract with a toll entity. This can be used by vehicles with a foreign license
plate that stay in Portugal for a longer period of time.
Obtaining: Via Verde-shops
(www.viaverde.pt)
Costs: €27 + direct debit from bank account every time the device
is used.
Payment without electronic devices:
Prepaid credit (only available for vehicles
with a foreign license plate)
If the period you are staying in Portugal does not justify
the option of the Temporary device, one can opt for charging based on the registration
of an image of the license plate in everyone of the electronic toll booths.
Before
passing the highways on which the charging is exclusively electronic and through
the CTT website, drivers (after being registered on this site and being provided
with login and password) can choose one of the following modalities:
- Make a prepayment
valid for five weekdays, whatever the journeys made on roads covered by this system.
-
Make a prepayment for predefined journeys on specific days.
The payment is made through
a valid credit card. The amount charged depends on the option chosen.
You can register
here (only available in Portuguese): http://www2.ctt.pt/fectt/wcmservlet/ctt/particulares/correio/outros_servicos_estacao_correio/pagamento_portagens/matricula_estrangeira.html
Payment
after having circulated at the roads concerned (only available for vehicles with
a Portuguese license plate)
If a vehicle does not have an electronic device when circulating
at the highways concerned, a photo of the license plate will be made and saved until
the payment is made.
Term for payment: the payment can be made at the second day after
having circulated at the roads mentioned above and for a period of five weekdays,
at the post office or at one of the shops signalized as “Payshop”.
Costs: normal toll
costs + administrative costs (an amount €0,25 for every time the roads were used
with a maximum of €2 for each payment made)
Note: when a payment term has passed,
the driver is in violation of the rules, and fines will be added to the administrative
costs.
More information:
CTT - Tel: (+351) 707 26 26 26
Find a postoffice nearby: http://www2.ctt.pt/feapl_2/app/open/tools.jspx?tool=3&lang=01
Estradas de Portugal:
http://www.estradas.pt/portagensestrangeiros
The above information is courtesy of the Portugal tourist board the official tourist site for Portugal
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