Austria Truck Tolls 2026

From 2026, Austria’s federal government is reshaping the truck toll: instead of simply indexing infrastructure costs to inflation, the new package shifts more weight to external costs – CO₂ emissions, air pollution and noise. For carriers, the question of “truck toll Austria cost per km” becomes even more strategic, especially on busy Alpine transit corridors.

The reform aims to keep the infrastructure share stable in 2026, while adding around €42 million per year in new charges for external costs. At the same time, the 75% discount for zero-emission trucks > 3.5 t is extended until 2030. The result is a mixed message for the market: strong ecological steering, but Austria remains one of Europe’s most expensive transit countries.

Summary

Austria’s truck toll system in 2025 combines the GO-Box (GO Maut) for vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, section tolls (Streckenmaut) on Alpine routes like the Brenner motorway, and CO₂-based pricing introduced in 2024. Costs vary by axle count, emission class, and time of travel, with night surcharges on the Brenner nearly doubling rates. 

This guide explains the toll models, current rates, and challenges for carriers — and shows how IMPARGO’s toll calculator, route planner, and analytics help transport companies cut costs and stay competitive.

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Table of Contents

1. Why Austria is Reforming the Truck Toll in 2026
2. Key Changes from 2026 Onwards
3. Austria in Comparison: Transit Costs & Competitiveness
4. Truck Toll Austria Cost per km
5. Impact on Quotes and Routing
6. Digital Toll Austria by 2027
7. Austria’s Truck Toll System in 2025
8. Toll Systems Explained: Vignette, GO-Box, Section Toll
9. GO-Box Austria and 2025 Toll Rates
10. Section Toll Rates in Austria (Streckenmaut)
11. Challenges for HGV Operators
12. Toll and CO₂ Reporting for Shippers
13. IMPARGO as the Easy Solution
14. FAQ: Austria GO-Box and Toll Roads

Why Austria is Reforming the Truck Toll in 2026

The 2026 reform of Austria’s truck toll aims to combine cost transparency with stronger ecological steering. Instead of focusing mainly on infrastructure financing, the system increasingly reflects the polluter-pays principle: vehicles that generate more emissions and external costs should pay more.

By pricing CO₂, air pollution and noise more directly, the government wants to incentivise cleaner fleets while still securing funding for the road network. For transport and logistics companies, this turns the toll into a key part of long–term fleet and investment strategy – from vehicle choice and drive technology to the way Austrian and pan-European routes are planned.

Key Changes from 2026 Onwards

Several core elements of Austria’s truck toll will change from 2026:

• Suspension of toll valorisation: The automatic inflation adjustment of the infrastructure share is suspended once. This keeps the infrastructure component of the truck toll stable in 2026.
• New external cost charges: External costs for air pollution, noise and CO₂ are priced more strongly, adding roughly €42 million per year in additional burden for heavy vehicles.
• Extended discount for zero-emission trucks: The 75% discount on the infrastructure share for zero-emission trucks over 3.5 tonnes is extended until 2030, providing planning security for companies investing in low- and zero-emission fleets.

Because individual cost components of the Austrian truck toll are likely to change more often in the future (especially CO₂ and external cost shares), many companies are already moving to digital route and toll calculation to keep their price bases up to date instead of maintaining manual spreadsheets.

Austria in Comparison: Transit Costs & Competitiveness

Even with the 2026 package, Austria remains one of the most expensive transit countries in Europe. A simple comparison highlights the gap:

• €50 in tolls allow around 94 km in Austria,
• around 144 km in Germany,
• and roughly 535 km in Poland.

For international corridors – especially north–south traffic crossing the Alps – the Austrian toll level has a direct impact on route choice and competitiveness. Carriers must decide whether alternative, lower-toll routes with longer driving time may be cheaper overall than the direct but expensive transit through Austria.

This is where it becomes crucial to compare different route options including toll costs, not just distance and driving time. Many transport operators therefore rely on digital route planners with toll visibility that show toll charges alongside transit times for Austria and other EU countries.

Truck Toll Austria Cost per km

The truck toll Austria cost per km is not a fixed number. It depends on several parameters, including:

• Emission and CO₂ class of the vehicle,
• number of axles and gross vehicle weight,
• chosen route (standard motorway sections vs. Alpine sections and tunnels),
• time of day (e.g. night surcharges on the Brenner from 22:00–05:00).

In practice, the Austria truck toll per km is the result of:

• distance-based GO-Box toll on motorways and expressways,
• additional section tolls for Alpine stretches and tunnels,
• and CO₂ / external cost pricing embedded in the tariff tables.

Alpine sections and tunnels can have a disproportionate effect on the average cost per km and quickly push total toll spend far above rough back-of-the-envelope estimates. Modern truck toll calculators automatically factor in these parameters and help avoid miscalculations when preparing offers or internal costings.

Impact on Quotes and Routing

For carriers and freight forwarders, the 2026 reform reinforces the need to make toll a clear, traceable part of rate setting and quoting. Underestimating toll components – in Austria, Germany or elsewhere – can lead straight to margin erosion.

In route planning, dispatchers usually juggle three main options:

• fastest route (time-driven),
• cheapest route (including toll and operating costs),
• toll-optimised route (deliberate trade-off between time and toll spend).

These decisions feed directly into ETAs, delivery windows and driver scheduling. Many companies use IMPARGO here, because toll calculation and route planning run in a single step — no need to re-calculate tolls manually in Excel or switch between separate online tools.

Digital Toll Austria by 2027

In parallel to the truck toll reform, Austria is completing the transition to a fully digital vignette for cars and light vehicles. The classic adhesive vignette will be phased out, with toll collection handled exclusively via licence plate recognition in the ASFINAG system.

Already today, the majority of annual vignettes are sold as digital vignettes. From 2027, digital tolling will be the standard for passenger vehicles, with automatic charging, fewer input errors and smoother integration into online toll and routing tools.

This further increases the value of systems that regularly update toll and vignette tariffs and use them directly in planning – whether for Austria toll online purchases or combined EU route planning.

Austria’s Truck Toll System in 2025

This section introduces Austria’s toll model, operated by ASFINAG, and explains the role of CO₂ pricing since 2024.

Austria has one of the most complex toll systems in Europe. Since 2024, the GO-Box toll for trucks (also called GO Maut) also includes CO₂ emission classes, meaning toll costs depend not only on kilometers and axles but also on emission standards.

Routes like the A13 Brenner Motorway are especially costly, with night surcharges (22:00–05:00) almost doubling prices. For carriers, toll costs on Austrian motorways can significantly affect profitability.

Toll Systems Explained: Vignette, GO-Box, Section Toll

This section explains the three toll systems in Austria for different vehicle categories.

• Vignette (toll sticker): Cars and vehicles under 3.5 tonnes require a vignette. Available as a digital vignette Austria (e-vignette). 
• GO-Box (truck toll): Trucks over 3.5 tonnes pay a distance-based toll using the electronic toll device (OBU).
• Section Toll (Streckenmaut): Flat-rate surcharges for stretches such as the A12 Inntal Autobahn, the A9 Bosruck Tunnel, the A9 Gleinalm Tunnel, the A10 Tauern Tunnel, the A11 Karawanken Tunnel, the S16 Arlberg Tunnel, and the A13 Brenner Motorway. All section toll rates are listed net of 20% VAT.

GO-Box Austria and 2025 Toll Rates

The table below shows the current GO-Box Austria (GO Maut) toll rates for trucks, based on CO₂ class, emission standard, and axle number.

Source: ASFINAG GO Toll 2025 PDF (valid from 01.01.2025)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

Use Case: Fleet Upgrade ROI

A fleet of 10 EURO IV trucks driving 100,000 km annually will spend tens of thousands of euros more in tolls than a EURO VI fleet.

With the IMPARGO truck toll calculator, dispatchers can simulate toll costs instantly, supporting ROI-driven fleet decisions.

Section Toll Rates in Austria (Streckenmaut) – Overview

Note: Section tolls are charged once per passage (flat amount), separate from and in addition to the distance-based GO-Box toll.

The following tables show 2025 rates (HGV only). Source: ASFINAG Section Toll Rates (valid from 01.01.2025)

A12 Inntal Autobahn (section) — State border Kufstein → Junction Innsbruck-Amras (75 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

A13 Brenner Motorway (section, day/night tariffs)

The Brenner is Austria’s most expensive truck toll road. There are two official segments with different distances and day/night pricing. Night rates apply from 22:00–05:00. Source: ASFINAG Section Toll Rates (valid from 01.01.2025)

A13 Brenner — Innsbruck-Amras → State border (35 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

A13 Brenner — Innsbruck-Wilten → State border (34 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

Use Case: Cross-Border Quoting

A dispatcher planning Vienna → Verona must account for Brenner night surcharges. A 4+ axle EURO III truck pays over €100 per passage at night on the Brenner segments above.

With the IMPARGO online HGV route planner, dispatchers can compare day vs. night departures.

Alpine Tunnels (per-passage): A9 Bosruck (10 km), A9 Gleinalm (25 km), A10 Tauern (47 km), A11 Karawanken (10 km), S16 Arlberg (16 km)

Each section has its own flat-rate level — they are not the same as A12. HGV rates per tunnel below.

A9 Bosruck Tunnel — Spital/Pyhrn → Ardning (10 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

A9 Gleinalm Tunnel — St. Michael → Übelbach (25 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

A10 Tauern Tunnel — Flachau → Rennweg (47 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

A11 Karawanken Tunnel — St. Jakob/Rosental → State border (Karawankentunnel) (10 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

S16 Arlberg Tunnel — St. Anton am Arlberg → Langen am Arlberg (16 km)

All rates in EUR, excl. 20% VAT.

Challenges for HGV Operators

This section outlines the main cost and compliance challenges for carriers using Austria’s toll network.

• Older fleets (EURO 0–IV) face steep tolls.
• Axle surcharges significantly increase costs.
• Brenner night tariffs (22:00–05:00) nearly double prices.
• Route deviations add unexpected tolls.
• Shippers demand toll and CO₂ breakdowns in invoices.
• Manual use of the ASFINAG Mautkalkulator is slow.

Toll and CO₂ Reporting for Shippers

Shippers increasingly expect transparency in cost and sustainability. This section explains how toll and emission reports can be automated.

With the IMPARGO analytics dashboard, dispatchers can generate toll and CO₂ reports per vehicle, trip, or order in seconds. This makes compliance easier and builds trust with customers.

IMPARGO as the Easy Solution

The table below compares Austria’s toll challenges with the IMPARGO tools that solve them.

IMPARGO truck toll calculator Europe

Effortlessly calculate European lorry toll costs — ideal for haulage, freight and logistics providers. Use the IMPARGO truck toll calculator Europe to estimate toll charges across Germany, France, Poland, Austria and more, and plan toll-optimised routes to reduce expenses and maximise efficiency.

• Covers all major European toll roads, plus bridge and tunnel tolls
• Updates toll information regularly in each country for precise forecasts
• Considers hazardous goods, axle count, axle load, weight and emission class
• Supports exact toll projections for optimised route planning and quoting

Route planning with toll optimisation

Within the IMPARGO HGV route planner, you can choose between:

• cost-optimised routes,
• toll cost-optimised routes, and
• the fastest route.

An additional “Avoid tolls” mode helps you plan cost-effective or time-efficient routes that avoid unnecessary tolls. You can export the planned route as a PDF or use it directly in the IMPARGO DriverApp.

• Activate “Avoid tolls” to minimise charges
• Compare fastest vs. cheapest routes
• Use smart re-routing to cut toll spend
• Send optimised routes straight to drivers

Detailed toll breakdowns & mass calculation

The IMPARGO toll calculator provides a detailed breakdown of toll charges — split by country and toll operator, including vignettes, bridge/tunnel fees and motorway tolls. You can display prices with or without VAT for accurate cost control.

• Frequently updated toll and vignette tariffs
• Clear view of tolled vs. toll-free kilometres
• Overviews by country and toll operator
• Switch between VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive amounts

Using the mass calculation feature, you can calculate toll costs for multiple routes at once. Upload routes via Excel or CSV, apply vehicle-specific parameters (axles, weight, emission class, ADR, etc.) and export the results for further analysis.

• Automate toll calculations for large datasets
• Upload routes via simple Excel/CSV templates
• Apply detailed vehicle profiles for realistic results
• Identify cost-saving routing alternatives at scale

In short, IMPARGO helps carriers stay prepared for ongoing changes in Austria’s truck toll and wider European toll systems — without having to constantly reinvent internal processes.

FAQ: Austria GO-Box and Toll Roads

Direct answers to common questions about Austria’s toll system.

What is the GO-Box Austria?   
The GO-Box Austria (or GO Maut) is the electronic toll device (OBU) required for all trucks over 3.5 tonnes. Source: ASFINAG GO Toll 2025

How much is the Brenner motorway toll in 2025?   
The Brenner has two segments: Innsbruck-Amras→Border (35 km) and Innsbruck-Wilten→Border (34 km), each with day/night rates and higher night surcharges (22:00–05:00). See the tables above. Source: ASFINAG Section Toll 2025

What is the ASFINAG Mautkalkulator?   
The ASFINAG Mautkalkulator is the official toll calculator. The IMPARGO toll calculator offers instant results without manual input.

Do section tolls replace the GO-Box toll?   
No. Section tolls (Streckenmaut) are flat, per-passage surcharges in addition to the GO-Box toll. (Rates are listed net of 20% VAT.)

Are the section toll amounts the same across tunnels?   
No. Each section (A12, A9 Bosruck/Gleinalm, A10, A11, S16) has its own price level. See the tables above.

Are CO₂ emissions part of Austria’s truck tolls?   
Yes. Since 2024, CO₂ emission classes are included. Cleaner trucks pay less. Source: ASFINAG GO Toll 2025

What is the digital vignette Austria (e-vignette)?   
Cars and vans under 3.5 tonnes require a digital vignette Austria (e-vignette). Trucks must use the GO-Box.

Is there a European toll calculator?   
Yes. The IMPARGO route planner works as a European toll calculator, covering Austria, Germany, Italy, and beyond.