E-toll (South Africa)

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rdf:langString e-toll (in South Africa) consists of the electronic toll collection (ETC) processes employed by South Africa's roads agency SANRAL on selected toll roads or toll lanes, subject to the Sanral Act of 1998. SANRAL derives its income both from toll income and the national fiscus, while initial capital outlay for large projects are funded by open market bond issues. In total SANRAL manages 13,000 km of non-toll roads in South Africa, besides the majority (or 2,952 km) of its toll roads, including 187 km of Gauteng's freeways which are subject to e-toll. The two main ETC methods are "Boom-down" electronic toll collection and open road tolling (ORT). The systems were designed to fund the R20 billion highway upgrade program (GFIP or Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project) which was implemented in 2007 and largely completed by April 2011. Open road tolling went live in Gauteng province on December 3, 2013, when the province had some 3.5 million registered vehicles. As of 2014, 19% of South Africa's national roads were toll roads, some of them managed by either N3 Toll (Heidelberg–Pietermaritzburg), Bakwena (Pretoria-Lobatse) or TRAC (Pretoria-Maputo corridor), rather than SANRAL.