Find out more on the free flow budget: how to pay and what happens if there is no payment in the free passage system.
Summary
The free flow budget, also called the free passage system, is an innovation that allows automatic collection of the highways, dispensement of the stop at traditional toll squares, making traffic more fluid and modern.
THE Free flow toll It is an innovation that can make life easier for drivers and pilots on Brazilian roads.
With this new toll model, also called free passage system, the traffic on the motorways becomes more fluid, since the feature has the potential to eliminate the physical barriers that can delay the path, such as traditional toll squares.
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While bringing more comfort to travel drivers, the free flow toll system also requires attention with the form of payment. This is because it is not necessary for cash payments, cards or photos.
Without proper attention, there is the possibility for a driver not to pay the toll, which is a violation of traffic.
What is free flow toll?
The free flow toll is a feature that allows a collection of automatic tolls in specific points of a road, without the need for drivers to pass through conventional toll squares. This payment system uses technologies such as cameras and sensors to identify a vehicle and charge the toll due.
The free -flow toll payment occurs digitally and technology is enabled to use one of the following features for the collection:
- A payment tag, installed on the windshield of the vehicle, which is detected by the sensors on the road;
- The plaque, identified by cameras in a stretch of the road.
The free flow balance already exists in countries in Europe and the United States, and became part of the reality of some Brazilian motorway in January 2023. The inauguration of the system was on the BR-101, in the stretch between Itguaí, Mangaratiba and Paraty, on the southern coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The National Traffic Council (contran) has regulated the automatic toll system by 2022, through resolution no. 984.
According to the document, the vertical signs plates should be installed in access and on urban highways, indicating the presence of technology to drivers.
Among the toll differentials with automatic collection system there are:
- Faster on the driver’s path, as there is no toll or must stop or reduce the speed of the vehicle;
- Discounts on the Toll value, offered by some payment companies;
- More practicality for making payments, which do not require the need to pay at the time of circulation on the road.
The amounts that must be paid in the toll with the automatic collection system are the same as the conventional toll and must be informed about plates along roads and highways.
Free flow toll, how to pay?
While the cabins that form conventional toll squares require payment of cash, pix or cards, in the free flow it is necessary none of these resources to pay the amount charged by retailers.
This is because, on the free flow, it is possible to pay in two ways. Most of these are with the use of tags, a device that has a microchip, offered by specialized companies.
These companies allow drivers to create a toll payment account in a prepaid way, from the balance in the account or by the mail paid, on an invoice that adds all the tolls of the month.
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The second way to pay tolls with an automatic billing system is offered to vehicles that do not have payment tags or motorcycles.
In this case, the collection is made for the recognition of the plate. After the system identifies the vehicle, an invoice is issued, which will reach the address of the car owner. The invoice will be sent to the same address recorded in the State Traffic Department (Detran).
Another option is to access the applications and websites of the road responsible for the road where the toll was recorded and, when filling the necessary information, displays the collection and make the payment. The deadline to pay the toll debts is up to 30 days after generation of the collection.
How to know if I owe it in the free flow?
The consultation of free -flow toll debt can be made on apps and websites for the dealership, companies that offer payment tags and also through the Detran website or the digital traffic app app, which notifies the owners of vehicles on open fines.
What happens if you don’t pay the free flow toll?
Not paying the free flow toll, the owners of vehicle vehicle support what is called tinging abandonment.
Art. 209 of the Brazilian traffic code (CTB) defines a serious violation of traffic as the act of “transposition, without authorization, road blocking with or without reporting or auxiliary devices, stopping at the areas intended for the weighing or evasion of the vehicle so as not to pay the toll”.
Therefore, not paying the free flow would be equivalent to drilling the gate gate or deviating the traditional toll car not to pay the toll. This infringement generates a fine of R $ 195.23, in addition to the increase of 5 points in the CNH (national driving license).
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Source: Terra
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