Ferde AS is a Norwegian toll company owned by

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and

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. The company was created on 5 October 2016 is headquartered in

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. The company was called Sørvest Bomvegselskap AS until 1 January 2018. All

toll roads in Norway Road tolling to finance bridges, tunnels and roads has a long history in Norway. The cities Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim introduced toll rings between 1986 and 1991 as a means to discourage urban traffic and to finance infrastructure projects aroun ...

have a toll road operator responsible for the financing of the road project. The right to demand payment of toll charges is granted when a toll charge agreement is entered into with the

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. Ferde AS is one of the regional toll companies created following the Government's decision to merge the toll companies into five regional companies. The Government signed a new toll charge agreement with the company on 24 November 2017. The reform was proposed by Prime minister

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and has four parts – a reduction of toll road operators, separation of the toll service provision for tolls and ferry tickets from the toll road companies, an interest compensation scheme for toll road loans, and a simplification of the price and discount schemes.

Projects

22 existing companies and projects are being transferred to the regional company. Furthermore, all new toll projects in the region will be conducted under Ferde in the future. All of Ferdes' toll stations uses the Norwegian electronic toll collection system

AutoPASS Autopass (stylized autoPASS) is an electronic toll collection system used in Norway. It allows collecting road tolls automatically from cars. It uses electronic radio transmitters and receivers operating at 5.8 GHz (MD5885) originally supp ...

. A valid AutoPASS or

EasyGo EasyGo is a joint venture between Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Austria, that enables use of a single electronic toll tag on toll roads, ferries and bridges in all the member countries. The purpose of EasyGo is to enable the use of one OBE for payme ...

transponder (such as

BroBizz BroBizz is a Danish system for electronic toll collection established in 2008. It was developed and managed by BroBizz A/S. Meanwhile, Sund & Bælt Holding A/C own 100% of its share. . Sund & Bælt is part of the joint venturwith e EasyGo. ...

) are valid in Norwegian toll stations through the

partnership.

Projects in the region

* Askøypakken * Austevollbrua * Bomringen i Bergen * Bomringen i Kristiansand * Bymiljøpakken Nord-Jæren *Bømlopakken *E18 Tvedestrand - Arendal * E134 Åkrafjorden * Finnfast * Førdepakken * Fv.45 Gjesdal * Hardangerbrua * Haugalandspakken * Jondalstunnelen * Kvammapakken *Nordhordlandspakken (From 1 December 2019){{Cite web, url=https://ferde.no/2019/10/toll-collection-for-nordhordlandspakken-starts-from-01-12-19/?lang=en, title=Toll collection for Nordhordlandspakken starts from 01/12/19 » Ferde, date=2019-10-16, website=Ferde, language=en-GB, access-date=2019-10-16 * Rogfast * T-forbindelsen * Vossapakko

References

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Projects

Projects in the region

See also

References