The Brenner Highway A13, which leads from Austria to Italy over the Brenner Pass, requires a toll. The toll in Austria is an additional fee in addition to the vignette and is levied on highways and expressways where maintenance costs are significantly higher due to their location and traffic load compared to most roads. For cars up to 3.5 tonnes total weight, the toll replaces the vignette on toll-required sections, which is necessary for all highways and expressways in Austria. However, an additional vignette is usually still required in Austria, as it is needed for most entry and exit routes.
Italy and Austria have different toll and vignette systems, and the Italian Brenner Highway A22 becomes the Austrian Highway A13 at the border. While the toll for A13 can be purchased at toll stations at the border or online, and the vignette for non-toll-required highways and expressways in Austria can be purchased online, at many gas stations, and toll stations, A22 operates as a closed system where the toll amount depends on the distance traveled. The toll is calculated and paid in cash or by credit card at toll stations at the respective highway exits. Payment can also be made using the Viacard, a prepaid card for toll payment on Italian highways. You can calculate the costs for the A22 route here. The costs for the Brenner toll are distance-dependent:
The costs for the toll on the A13 Brenner Highway depend on the distance traveled. A toll for the Brenner Highway can be registered for 1 trip, 2 trips, or as an annual pass at the following costs on Digital-Vignette-Online.at:
With the annual pass, you can use the Brenner Highway throughout the year. The advantage of the digital toll is that it is registered based on the license plate, similar to the vignette, and can be automatically detected. Toll stations on toll-required highways have green marked lanes specifically for the Digital Toll (formerly Video Toll). Only cars with a registered toll can use these lanes, where no terminals for cash or card payments are available, resulting in significantly shorter waiting times when using the Digital Toll.
Unlike other toll sections where only specific parts of an Austrian highway or expressway may be toll-required, the entire A13 is subject to toll. The toll station for the A13 Brenner Highway is located at Schönberg.
Tip
You can simply enter the start and end points of your planned trip in the route calculator, and all necessary toll and vignette products for the trip will be displayed.
The Brenner Pass is one of the border passes between Italy and Austria and is one of the most important routes for Alpine transit. The Brenner Pass has been used to cross the Alps since ancient times, and until the Middle Ages, the Via Raetia was one of the main roads across the Alps. In the 16th century, a mail route was expanded over the Brenner Pass, and in the 19th century, the Brenner Railway, the first railway line across the main Alpine ridge from Innsbruck to Verona, was opened. In the 1960s, the Brenner Highway was built and finally opened in the 1970s. It represents an important connection between Austria and Italy: the Italian European Route E45 and the Autostrada A22 lead directly to the Brenner Highway, making it one of the most important transit routes between Italy and Austria.
