<p>The German government thereby aims to improve the financing of federal motorways and trunk roads and guarantee a modern, safe and efficient traffic infrastructure in Germany. For this reason, the user financing needs to be supported. The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) contracted Toll Collect to lay the technical groundwork. With the extension, the federal toll system will grow to 40,000 kilometres of federal trunk road. Currently, a total of 15,000 kilometres of motorway and federal trunk road is subject to charge. And that applies to only one direction of travel for each road.</p>