Promulgation of the new Circular regulating the operation of road toll stations in Vietnam

Methods for collecting tolls in Vietnam

The collection of tolls is conducted through non-stop electronic toll collection and one-stop methods.

- The non-stop electronic toll collection method involves automated collection of tolls, where vehicles participating in road traffic do not need to stop to pay tolls when passing through a toll station.

- The one-stop method involves the collection of tolls where vehicles must make a single stop at the toll lane control gate to pay tolls when passing through the toll station.

Data on toll collection in vietnam

- Data on toll collection includes traffic account information data and data on toll payment transactions.

- Traffic account information data includes traffic account information as prescribed by the law on electronic payment for road traffic.

- Data on toll payment transactions includes:

+ Files of toll payment information data as prescribed by the law on electronic payment for road traffic;

+ Files on traffic volume, toll revenue, single trip tickets, monthly tickets, quarterly tickets; c) Surveillance lane video files, panoramic monitoring.

- toll collection data must comply with the law on electronic transactions and the law on network information security.

- Data retention regime for toll collection:

+ Minimum storage of 1 year: panoramic surveillance video files;

+ Minimum storage of 5 years: lane surveillance video files; image files of vehicles passing through toll stations;

+ Storage from the time the toll station is put into operation until 10 years following the liquidation of the PPP project contract or from the time the toll station ceases operation: files of toll payment information data (excluding vehicle photos, license plate photos); files of data on traffic volume, toll revenue, single trip tickets, monthly tickets, quarterly tickets;

+ Traffic account information data files are stored from the time the traffic account is opened until 10 years after the traffic account is closed.

More details can be found in Circular 34/2024/TT-BGTVT effective from January 1, 2025, and replacing Circular 45/2021/TT-BGTVT.

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