Vignette and section tolls

You need a vignette for vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes. It is available as a toll sticker or digital vignette for various periods of time. With a vignette, you can use almost all section toll segments. For certain section toll segments, on the other hand, you need a section toll ticket.

Do you have questions about vignettes or section tolls? Do you have questions about the different types of vignettes, their validity periods or the section toll segments? Would you like to know more about your substitute toll demand?

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Is your vehicle heavier than 3.5 tonnes? Then you need a GO-Box instead of a vignette. You can find all the relevant information about the GO-Box in the GO toll section.

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Digitale section toll refers to the automatic processing of your car at the route toll station. When you buy the ticket/card, your number plate is registered and activated. As soon you you enter a toll lane of your choice with the registered vehicle, the car number plate is identified, the barriers open automatically and you can pass through quickly without having to stop.

The big advantage: The video system works at all open toll lanes, and you can choose any lane you like. A digital section toll ticket can be purchased in minutes from our toll shop or from our free ASFINAG app and from other sales outlets (such as ARBÖ and ÖAMTC).

Important information

The digital section toll ticket works on all open car toll and credit card lanes.
When you purchase the digital section toll ticket online it also stays valid until you first use it, but for no longer than one year.
The specially marked video toll lane can only be used by cars without a trailer. The car must be no wider than two metres (wheelbase).
GO lanes are reserved for our GO toll customers (lorries and buses of more than 3.5 tons technically permissible maximum laden mass (TPMLM)), and you cannot use them even if you have a digital section toll ticket.

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Motorcyclists with a digital section toll ticket must stop at the toll booth and present the ticket or hold the barcode on the ticket up to the scanner. Reason: the cameras for the digital section toll compare the license plate numbers from the front and back. In addition, it is very difficult for the cameras to monitor two-line license plate numbers.

Yes. You can buy the digital section toll in the toll shop before you start your journey. When you buy the ticket, your number plate is registered and activated.

As soon as you enter the toll lane of your choice with the registered vehicle, the car number plate is identified, the barriers open and you can pass through quickly without having to stop.

Tip! If you buy your annual pass as a digital section toll ticket or at the toll station, you are protected against loss. Your vehicle number plate is registered in the system for the duration of the validity period.

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The easiest way to obtain a section toll ticket is via the ASFINAG toll shop. A digital section toll ticket can be purchased in minutes from our toll shop or from our free ASFINAG app and from other sales partners (such as ARBÖ and ÖAMTC).

Directly at the toll station by cash, credit card (VISA, Diners Club, Mastercard and American Express), fuel card (DKV, Esso, Shell, OMV, Routex, UTA) or Maestro card.

There are also toll processing machines at the toll stations, which again accept cash, credit card (VISA, Diners Club, Mastercard and American Express), fuel card (DKV, Esso, Shell, OMV, Routex, UTA) or debit card (Austrian Maestro card and German EC card) The machine accepts coins and notes (up to 20-euro note), and it gives change. There is a button you can press if you would like a receipt.

Tip! Paying using the toll processing machine: Take your receipt! The toll covers your onward journey on the A 13 within 24 hours in the same direction.

In addition to the above toll machines, there are credit card machines on the A 13 Brenner motorway, the A 10 Tauern motorway and the A 9 Pyhrn motorway. These differ from the toll machines in that they do not accept cash. The lanes that take you to the credit card machine are marked in bright orange. At toll stations you are always on the left in the direction of travel.

You also can buy the digital section toll from venting machine at various rest areas and border crossings. The machines only accept credit and debit cards, not cash.

The following types of tickets (please note that all tickets are tied to a specific route and number plate) are available for route toll sections:

Single ticket

The single ticket is valid for one trip for all vehicles up to 3.5 tons technically permissible maximum laden mass (TPMLM). There is no discount for return journeys.

Multi-trip card

The multi-trip card is tied to a specific number plate and route and is valid for one year from the date of issue. No multi-trip card is issued for vehicles with trial run number plates (Probekennzeichen) and transfer number plates (Überstellkennzeichen).

Other types of route toll passes

A 13 resident pass

Residents of the Wipp and Stubai valleys are issued what is called a resident pass on presentation of certain documents. This pass is valid for one year from the date of issue.

You need the following documents:

Registration certificate
Residence registration form
Valid allonge (lower section)

The A 13 resident pass cannot be bought online because the required documents cannot be checked.

14-trip monthly pass on the A 11

The card is valid for 14 trips through the Karawanken Tunnel within 30 calendar days of issue. Unused trips expire after 30 calendar days. This card is tied to a specific number plate.

Digital route toll FLEX

With FLEX, every trip through an Austrian section toll station is billed automatically and retrospectively according to the applicable tariffs.

The interactive map below shows the sections on which section tolls must be paid in Austria.

You will need a vignette on the motorways and expressways marked in orange.
On the sections marked in green, you must pay the section toll.

The following sections are roads subject to section tolls:

A 9 Pyhrn motorway between the Spital/Pyhrn and Ardning junctions (Bosruck tunnel) and between the St. Michael and Übelbach junctions (Gleinalm tunnel).
A 10 Tauern motorway between the Flachau and Rennweg junctions (Tauern and Katschberg tunnels).
A 11 Karawanken motorway between the St. Jakob im Rosental junction and the state border in the Karawanken tunnel.
A 13 Brenner motorway: the entire A 13 is subject to section tolls.
S 16 Arlberg expressway between the St. Anton am Arlberg and Langen am Arlberg junctions.

There are 10-day, 2-month and annual vignettes for both types of vignette (toll sticker and digital vignette).

Annual vignette: is valid for 14 months, from 1 December of the previous year until 31 January of the following year.

2-month-Vignette: is valid for a period of two months. For example: valid from January 10th, validity expires March 10th, midnight.

10-days-Vignette: is valid for ten days. For example: valid from January 10th, validity expires January 19 th, midnight.

Only available as a digital vignette:

1-day vignette: Valid for one calendar day. Example: January 10th from midnight to midnight.

ATTENTION:

A vignette that is not affixed or punched (10-day or 2-month) is invalid and can result in penalties of between €300 and €3,000 if no replacement toll is paid.
If the digital vignette is purchased in the ASFINAG toll shop or via the ASFINAG app, it is only valid from the 18th day after the online purchase (see "Questions about the digital vignette"). This deadline does not apply if you purchase a 1-day or 10-day vignette!

There is also no difference in the prices.

All vehicles up to and including 3.5t technically permissible maximum laden mass (TPMLM) have to pay toll on motorways and expressways marked in orange (see grafic). No toll sticker is required for the particularly cost-intensive sections, the section toll, where special toll rates apply.

Exceptions to the compulsory Vignette usage

The exceptions shall enter into force in five sections as of 15 December 2019. The legal basis for this is the Federal Roads Toll Act (Bundesstraßenmautgesetz).

The exceptions apply to the following stretches of road:

the toll road A 1 Westautobahn between the national border at Walserberg and the Salzburg Nord junction,
the toll road A 12 Inntalautobahn between the national border at Kufstein and the Kufstein-Süd junction,
the toll road A 14 Rheintal/Walgau Autobahn between the national border at Hörbranz and the Hohenems junction and
the toll road A 26 Linzer Autobahn (currently still under construction)

It is not possible to change during the validity period of the vignette. Therefore, if you have purchased an annual adhesive vignette it is not possible to change to a digital vignette during the year of validity (1 December 2023 to 31. January 2025). The reverse is also not possible. For the following vignette year, however, you may decide which form of vignette you would prefer.

Exception: If a windscreen on which an adhesive toll sticker is fixed is broken, we support free, uncomplicated and rapid change to a digital toll sticker.

No, you can't do that. The toll sticker is issued for a specific vehicle and cannot be transferred to another vehicle.