ASFINAG

The motorways and expressways - financing company ( ASFINAG ) is an Austrian infrastructure company, which is responsible for the planning, financing, construction, maintenance, operation and toll collection of the Austrian motorway and expressway network. ASFINAG is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria.

• 3.1 Management and Supervisory Board

Tasks

ASFINAG was founded in 1982, in 1997 the company was invested by a contract with the federal government for additional tasks: ASFINAG rises in order of the State, the statutory tolls or user charges ( Austrian: collect ). These ASFINAG has formally since the usufruct of the property owned by the Federal land and facilities of the senior national road network. ASFINAG receives no money from the state budget, but performs a dividend to the Republic of Austria from.

Tariff structure

As in many other countries ASFINAG stands in contrast to the use of a proportional tolls for motorways use a staggered fee regardless of the actual use solely on duration of the ticket (nicknamed " Pickerl ").

Group structure

ASFINAG (based in Vienna, parent )

• ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH (MSG ) with headquarters in Salzburg, toll collection, toll route, vignette, truck toll
• ASFINAG Bau Management GmbH (BMG ) with headquarters in Vienna, New projects, roadway support
• ASFINAG Service GmbH (SG ) with the Headquarters: Ansfelden, route maintenance
• ASFINAG Alpenstraßen GmbH, headquartered in Innsbruck, route maintenance
• ASFINAG International GmbH (AIG ), with its registered office: Vienna

Facts & Figures

ASFINAG operates a route network of 2178 km length with connection points 426, 150 tunnels with 354 km length of the tube (17 single tube tunnel, 133 two Roehrig ) and 5,160 bridges with a total length of 340 km. More than half of the route network ( 1275 km ) is fitted with noise barriers.

ASFINAG runs its 40 rest areas and approximately 125 parking spaces, they leased a total of 89 service stations. There are a total of total network of 5,800 trucks and 15,000 passenger car parking spaces.

Management and Supervisory Board

The management of ASFINAG is composed of the board of the company, Alois Schedl and Klaus Schierhackl, and the individual managing directors of the companies.

The Supervisory Board is composed of Claudia Kahr ( chairman since 23 June 2010), Horst Pochhacker (Supervisory Board Deputy Chairman since May 4, 2007), Herbert Kasser (Member of the Supervisory Board since 24 May 2007), Ursula Zechner (Member of the Supervisory Board since May 23, 2011 ) and Maria Kubitschek (Member of the Supervisory Board since 24 May 2007). Employee representatives: Karl Fadinger (Chairman of the Group Works Council ), Franz Zimmermann ( First Deputy Chairman of the Group Works Council ) and Uschi Zortea - Ehrenbrandtner ( Chairman of the Works Council of motorways and highways - financing company ).

History

ASFINAG was founded on September 11, 1982. From this point, the credit operations were managed centrally for all project companies in Austria. 1992 ÖSAG (Austrian motorways and expressways AG) and ASG ( Alpine Road PLC ) founded a merger of to date, six operating motorway companies in Austria in the ASG in the West, ÖSAG for the rest of Austria.

As of 1997, the ASFINAG assumed overall responsibility for network and liabilities. A regularized spin-off of accumulated liabilities in the amount of 5.66 billion euros gave ASFINAG new tasks: planning, construction, maintenance, operation and financing of the primary road network in Austria. The right to levy tolls and user charges in its own name ( usufruct ) resulted in addition to the revenue from the special toll routes for the introduction of a time-related toll for vehicles under twelve tonnes gross vehicle weight. Since 2004 vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight to be considered with a distance-based toll.

2005 saw a change in the corporate structure through the merger of ASG ( Alpine Road PLC ) and ÖSAG (Austrian motorways and expressways AG) with the parent company ASFINAG. In mid-2005 took over the ASFINAG EUROPPASS Truck Toll System GmbH and founded the ASFINAG International GmbH. Also in 2005, took over the ASFINAG with the purchase of the Italian Autostrade subsidiary Europpass a truck toll system ( EUROPPASS ).

In 2006, ASFINAG road use by the end of the contract work with the provinces. Likewise 2006 PPP Eastern Region, commissioned the first Public Private Partnership project to construction of the Northern Motorway A 5.

2009, the three service companies ASFINAG were merged under the " ASFINAG Service GmbH".

2009 Representation of ASFINAG in Brussels in cooperation with the ASECAP.

2010 merger of the authorities responsible for the operating companies to ASFINAG Service GmbH.

2012 Introduction of the rescue alley on Austria's motorways and highways.

2013 After nearly six years of construction, the two new tubes of the Pfändertunnel to traffic were released at night on the 4th of July. Simultaneously with the opening to traffic sent by law, the validity of the Vorarlberg corridor vignette for the journey between the border and Hohenems on the A14 Rhine Valley motorway.

ASFINAG is also involved in a PPP project, which was built in 2009 and 2010, a section of the Hungarian Autópálya M6 together with Porr AG over the years and has a 30 -year contract.