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The Autobahn is the national freeway system of Austria. Austrian autobahns have general speed limits of 130 km/h (80 mph).
Tolls
The autobahn system requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker) in order to use, for both passenger cars and trucks. But there is also the possibility of some routes where you have to pay an extra toll in case of more expensive cost of preservation by the autobahn-company. Austrians offer their vignettes in varying lengths of validity (10 days, 2 months or a year). Since 2005 trucks have to have a Go-Box, a little white box which counts the length of the used autobahn with electrical control points. In Austria the Go-Box is queried by overhead DSRC microwave radio transceivers at each exit. As only trucks need to carry a Go-Box, overhead 3-D infrared laser scanners are used to detect and photograph trucks without Go-Box.
Traffic laws and enforcement
Autobahns in Austria may only be used by powered vehicles that are designed to achieve a maximum speed exceeding 60 km/h (Switzerland: 80 km/h).
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