With South Africa’s December holidays just around the corner, the calculator is a useful tool in helping road users better budget for a road trip by calculating a journey’s total toll road costs.
South African road users may have saved road travel costs with the recent decrease in the petrol price, but unexpected toll road fees do holiday-makers no favours. With the Toll Road Cost Calculator, compulsory toll road fees no longer have to come as a surprise, eating into your precious padkos fund.
A much-needed road travel tool
“Toll roads are as much a part of South African road trips as padkos and games of ‘eye spy’ with kids in the back seat. Knowing exactly how much you’re going to be contributing at toll gates before you arrive has never been easy. Websites likeSANRAL and AA, as well as others, publish South African toll fees on an annual basis. None of these sites provide a way of calculating the total cost for a particular trip. So whether you’re heading from Jozi to Durbs (R194.00 through five tolls), Cape Town to Kruger (R256.00 through six tolls), or Pofadder to Pretoria (no tolls), Drive South Africa’s interactive Toll Road Cost Calculator will help you budget just a little bit better before you head off on your next holiday on South Africa’s national roads.” - Andre Van Kets, Drive South Africa Co-founder and Marketing Director.
How the Toll Road Cost Calculator works
When using the tool, select a vehicle type (tolls differ depending on vehicle), enter a departure and arrival location using the Google Maps interface, and click “Calculate toll fees”. Toll gate costs are generated as the Toll Road Cost Calculator pulls current rates from a list of South Africa’s 32 GPS-plotted toll gate plazas, which run along the N1, N2, N3, N4, N17 and M6 (Chapmans Peak Drive). The toll gate fees used in the calculations are fed from a database updated with rates from the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL). The database only includes rates from physical toll gate plazas, and not from e-tolls.
As an interactive tool, a user has the ability to zoom in and out of the Google Map, giving them the opportunity to view toll gate locations in as much detail as needed.