Special Toll in Slovenia
What is a special toll?
The special toll applies to certain special toll routes. These are generally tunnels or mountain passes whose construction and maintenance involve particularly high costs. Tunnel projects in particular present major technical challenges and require the use of specialised machinery and modern technologies. These increased expenditures necessitate a separate toll collection.
Who has to pay the special toll?
An additional fee is charged for the use of special toll routes. Although these routes are not part of the vignette requirement or the route-based toll, they remain independently subject to tolls.
This means: regardless of whether you have already purchased a vignette or paid the route-based toll (also known as the distance-based toll), an additional fee applies for certain tunnels or mountain passes. The special toll must therefore be paid by all vehicle owners as soon as the relevant route is used.
Please also note that most special toll routes are accessible via vignette-required or route-toll-required access roads. In practice, it is therefore necessary to possess, in addition to the special toll, either a valid vignette or – for vehicles over 3.5 t – an electronic on-board unit for the collection of the route-based toll.
Which routes are subject to the special toll?
In Slovenia there is one special toll route for which an additional fee is charged: the Karawanken Tunnel A11, operated by ASFINAG and DARS, connecting Austria with Slovenia.
The amount of the fee depends on the respective vehicle class. Payment is possible on site by cash or credit card. Alternatively, digital route toll tickets can be purchased – for example through ADAC sales outlets. With a digital route toll ticket, you can use the green-marked toll lanes and payment at the toll booth is not required.
The Europamaut team wishes you a pleasant journey!
We wish you a pleasant trip to Slovenia. Detailed information on the toll in Slovenia and on vehicle classes can be found in our guide. For further planning, you are welcome to use our route planner. If you have any further questions about toll regulations, we are happy to help. Contact us at any time by email.
