On June 12, 2024, the Road Fund organized in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics, a workshop to popularize and disseminate the analysis report of the study on the evaluation of the performance of the system for collecting and remitting road tolls. This study aimed to identify weaknesses in the system and to propose optimization measures.
In 2015, the National Institute of Statistics conducted an initial evaluation of the system for collecting and remitting resources from the “Maintenance” window of the Road Fund. This study revealed that toll revenues represented 8% of the resources of this window, with a loss rate of 37.4%, resulting in a shortfall of 4 billion CFA francs per year.
In 2022, the INS updated the results of this study by focusing on road tolls. The results of this update showed an improvement, with a reduction in the attrition rate to 28%. In 2023, potential revenues are estimated at 12.43 billion CFA francs, despite a loss of 3.43 billion CFA francs due to losses.
To deepen this analysis, the Road Fund has requested technical assistance from the INS to carry out a new study to evaluate the performance of the road toll collection and remittance system. This national study, the results of which were presented on June 12, 2024 during a workshop in Yaoundé, covered the entire national territory, focusing on 47 toll booths spread over three major geographical areas, namely the North, West and South.
The study highlighted that, over the period 2018-2021, the average annual revenue of the 47 toll booths amounted to 6.8 billion CFA francs. The toll booths with the highest revenues in 2021 are those of EDEA and NKOMETOU, with revenues of 866.79 million CFA francs and 779.14 million CFA francs respectively. As for the distribution of revenues by geographical area, it shows a predominance of the South with 49% of revenues, followed by the West with 43% and the North with 8%.
In 2023, about 24,868,195 vehicles would have passed through the territory’s toll booths, with a strong predominance of private vehicles, representing 42% of this traffic. Potential revenues for the year are estimated at 12.43 billion CFA francs, with revenue peaks of 1.175 billion CFA francs in August and 1.116 billion CFA francs in December. Through its quantitative and qualitative surveys of service providers and payers, as well as road counting, this study has produced key indicators on the performance of the toll collection and remittance system.