Via Toll: Lithuania’s road toll per kilometre from 1 January 2027

Via Toll start date and the end of vignettes

Via Toll is Lithuania’s new road toll per kilometre. The system starts on 1 January 2027 and replaces the vignettes that carriers buy today for a fixed period. Via Lietuva, the state road company, runs Via Toll. Vans, trucks and buses pay it on toll roads. Passenger cars do not pay.

The vignettes end in two steps. Since 1 July 2026, carriers can no longer buy annual vignettes. Until the end of 2026, they can buy vignettes for a day, a week or a month. Every vignette bought in 2026 ends on 31 December 2026. Via Lietuva refunds the unused part of annual vignettes only. Applications open in early 2027.

Via Lietuva describes Via Toll as a new way to calculate the road user charge that Lithuania has had for more than ten years. The money goes to the State Road Fund for road repairs, reconstruction and bridges. EU rules require member states to end vignettes on the TEN-T road network by 2030, with some exceptions.

Via Toll rates per kilometre in 2027

LTSA, the Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration, calculated and approved the Via Toll rates from 1 January 2027. A Euro 6 truck over 12 tonnes in CO2 class 1 pays 0.111 EUR per km with up to 3 axles. With 4 axles it pays 0.115 EUR, and with 5 or more axles 0.118 EUR. Older Euro classes pay more.

The rate depends on the vehicle category, its maximum permissible mass, the number of axles, the Euro class, the CO2 class and the fuel type. Each rate has an infrastructure part and a CO2 part. EU rules have required tolls for heavy trucks to change with CO2 emissions since 2024. Cleaner CO2 classes pay less.

Lighter vehicles pay less. A Euro 6 van in category N1, up to 3.5 tonnes, pays 0.035 EUR per km. A Euro 6 truck in category N2, over 3.5 and up to 12 tonnes, pays 0.074 EUR per km with two axles. For exemptions, check with Via Lietuva.

Vehicles and roads that pay the Lithuanian toll

Via Toll applies to minibuses and buses (M2, M3), vans and light goods vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes (N1) and trucks (N2, N3). These are the same categories that need a vignette today. Passenger cars in category M1 do not pay. The toll applies only on main and regional state roads with a toll.

Via Lietuva manages more than 21,000 km of state roads. The toll roads cover 2,851 km of them, according to a Via Lietuva presentation from June 2026. Via Lietuva publishes a map of them on its Via Toll page. The weight class uses the maximum permissible mass of the vehicle, as the LTSA rate tables show.

Vehicles registered abroad pay the toll too. Via Lietuva points foreign carriers to EETS providers, and to single-route tickets for a one-time transit. For a vehicle registered in Lithuania, the system reads the technical data from the vehicle register (Regitra) when the carrier enters the plate number. The system then picks the rate.

Cameras on the toll road sections check each vehicle. They see whether the Via Toll app is on, an OBU is fitted or a ticket is valid.

Ways to pay Via Toll

Carriers choose how to record and pay the toll. The driver starts the free Via Toll app before each trip on toll roads, and the app records the distance. Larger fleets can use an on-board unit (OBU) from a provider that works with Via Toll. Carriers with a European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) contract need no extra registration in Lithuania.

An OBU is not required. The self-service portal sells single-route tickets in advance, for example for a one-time transit or a driver without a smartphone. The app and the portal take payment by online banking, bank card or fuel card. Cash is not accepted. Today, vignettes are also sold at physical sales points. From 2027, carriers pay only through the app, the portal or a provider.

Before 1 January 2027, carriers prepare in three ways.

• They register for Via Toll when Via Lietuva opens access. Via Lietuva plans this after its system tests, before the end of 2026.
• Carriers who pay with a fuel card, an OBU or an EETS contract ask their provider now whether it is preparing to join Via Toll.
• They plan the last vignettes of 2026. A month vignette bought in December still ends on 31 December 2026, and only annual vignettes get a refund.

Via Toll and the price of freight in and through Lithuania

From 2027, the Lithuanian toll on a load follows its kilometres on Lithuanian toll roads. A long trip pays more than a short one. Via Lietuva expects only a small effect on the final price of goods, because distances in Lithuania are short and a road charge already exists. Carriers include the toll in the transport price.

A load in transit, for example from Latvia to Poland, pays for each kilometre on Lithuanian toll roads. Via Lietuva says the Lithuanian rates will be among the lowest in Europe. Other countries on the route charge their own tolls, so the total depends on the route, the truck and the date.

Every load to or from Lithuania drives on Lithuanian roads, and so do our own trucks between Lithuania and Sweden. With RNJ Transport, road tolls are included in the one price we agree with you for the load, and you get one invoice. For loads in 2027, send the route, the date and the load size in the price form.

• Ask for an all-in price that includes road tolls for every load with Lithuanian kilometres from 1 January 2027.
• For contracts that last into 2027, agree in writing how the price covers road tolls.
• Send both full addresses when you ask for a price. The route sets the kilometres on toll roads.

Worked example: Via Toll per 100 km and per 300 km

The example shows the Via Toll charge for one trip on Lithuanian toll roads in 2027. The numbers are an illustration only and show the toll alone. The toll is the rate per km multiplied by the kilometres on toll roads. The example counts every kilometre as a toll road.

All rows use CO2 class 1, the class with the highest rates. The real amount appears in the carrier’s Via Toll account or on the provider’s invoice. Kilometres on roads without a toll add nothing.