The Supervisory Board of the State Company Avtodor has approved the signing of a long-term operator contract with United Toll Systems LLC for the maintenance, repair and toll-based operation of the second section of the M4 Don highway.
In accordance with the terms of the contract, UTS will conduct maintenance, repair and operation of the section of the M-4 Don highway from km 225 to km 633. The contract term will be ten years from its signing and can be extended for three years. One of the main objectives of United Toll Systems LLC on the section from km 225.6 – km 633.0 will be to implement intelligent transportation systems (ITS) – modern highly effective technologies for traffic management developed using the best international and Russian experience and the latest scientific and technical developments in information and telecommunication technologies. Equipping the highways with ITS, which combine an integrated system of information support and traffic management, will help to significantly increase safety and the level of control over traffic on the section, and also help to respond to emergency situations timely and effectively.
This project is a fundamentally new Operator Contract for Russia and consists of stages to equip the section with the necessary infrastructure for traffic management, maintenance and operation, including toll payment. Implementing contracts such as these will help to further develop the road network in the country, provide toll road users with world-class services and finally ensure the integration of Russian toll roads with the toll road system in Europe.
The M4 Don federal highway with a total length of more than 1500 km passes through Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, linking Moscow and Novorossiysk. It is planned that the length of toll sections will be 662.9 kilometers (40% of the total length of the highway). The main section of the highway from Moscow to Krasnodar is part of the E115 European route. The section from Krasnodar to Dzhubgi forms the E592 route and from Dzhugbi to Novorossiysk is part of the E97. A section of the E50 also passes along the M4. There is currently a 50 km toll section of the highway in operation in the Lipetsk Region.
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The State Company Russian Highways (Avtodor) was established on July 17, 2009. The aim of the company is to create and develop a network of high-speed toll highways and toll-free alternate routes, to maintain these roads in good condition, increase their capacity and develop highway service facilities.
Under the trust management of the State Company Avtodor are the M-1 Belarus (449 km), M-4 Don (1517 km) and M-3 Ukraine (488 km) highways. Since February 2011 Avtodor has been the executive agent for the construction of the high-speed Moscow – St. Petersburg highway (acting as a grantor in the project for the construction of the head section of the highway from km 15 to km 58) and the construction of a bypass of the Moscow suburban town of Odintsovo on the M-1 highway, where Avtodor is also acting as a grantor.
Avtodor has also been designated as an executive agent under the project for the construction of the Central Ring Road (TSKAD) in the Moscow Region.
UTS LLC is a joint enterprise established by Mostotrest OJSC and Kapsch TrafficCom Russia LLC in order to implement projects for the operation of toll highways and the development and implementation of optimal technological solutions with the use of intelligent highway management systems. Mostotrest OJSC is a controlling shareholder in the joint enterprise with a share of 51%.
Mostotrest OJSC (which includes Corporation Inzhtransstroy LLC and Transstroymekhanizatsiya LLC) is the largest diversified company in the field of infrastructure construction and the leading bridge building company in Russia. According to data from the independent industry consultant PMR, in 2010 Mostotrest occupied 8.4% of the Russian market for infrastructure construction (excluding road maintenance and repair work).
The core competence of Mostotrest is the building and reconstruction of bridges (including highway, railway and municipal bridges), highways and also other transport infrastructure facilities.
The company was founded in 1930 for the construction of non-standard and large bridges. Over the years the company has built and reconstructed more than 7500 different infrastructure facilities – bridges, overpasses, tunnels and transport interchanges.
Mostotrest is currently participating in the implementation of major infrastructure projects in Russia, such as the construction of transport facilities for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, a transport interchange on Shosse Entuziastov in Moscow and facilities on the M-4 Don, M-7 Volga highways and others.
Shareholder structure of Mostotrest OJSC:
38.6% - Marc O’Polo Investments, the beneficiaries of which are Arkady Rotenberg and the top managers of the transport group N-Trans – Konstantin Nikolaev, Nikita Mishin and Andrei Filatov;
26.5% - Non-State Pension Fund Blagosostoyanie;
34.9% - in free float.
Further information on Mostotrest may be found on the company’s website: www.mostotrest.ru
Kapsch TrafficCom is an international supplier of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The company’s core activity is the development and implementation of electronic toll systems, mostly designed for multi-lane “free flow” traffic, and also the technical and commercial management of these systems. Kapsch TrafficCom provides solutions for traffic management, including municipal traffic, and also certain ITSs and telematics systems. With 260 projects completed in 41 countries on all five continents, and also around 44 million on-board devices installed and more than 18,000 lanes fitted with equipment, Kapsch TrafficCom is one of the leading international providers of electronic toll systems. Kapsch TrafficCom is headquartered in Vienna, Austria and has a network of representative offices and subsidiary companies in 25 countries.
Further information may be found on the company’s website: http://www.kapsch.net.ru