The Netherlands

The Netherlands are planning to introduce nationwide roadpricing per kilometre driven as replacement to the current fixed taxes. This will be for all vechicles and based on the use of GNSS signals as the first system in the world.

In The Netherlands various systems of pricing car traffic have been considered for almost twenty years, but the national government did not decide to introduce road pricing until late 2007.

Distance, congestion and environment

The priciple is that you no longer pay for possessing a car but for actually driving it - the more you drive, the more you pay. The actual price paid per kilometre is to depend on the environmental characteristics of the car and the time and place of the journey.

Increased insight postpone introduction

The kilometre charge was planned to be introduced for the first group of users - the lorries – from 2011, followed by a gradual transition of passenger cars. The entire system is planned to be operational by 2016.

But in april 2009 The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in The Netherlands states that "increased insight into the road pricing system has made it clear that introduction for trucks as of 2011 is unlikely". Therefore the most recent aim is to have the legislative process completed in 2011.