Statistics on the results of the first year of operation of the state system “Platon” showed that professional logistics companies were leading in terms of intensity of use of federal highways (63% of the total mileage). The share of carriers providing the delivery of goods for various sectors of the economy is much lower: 12% – trade, 7% – construction and production of agricultural products, 6% – industrial production, 2% – mining and other industries. This was announced by Anton Zamkov, General Director of the “Platon” system operator, RT-Invest Transport System LLC, at the conference “Year of the System “Platon”: Results of Work and Prospects for Development” at the Transport of Russia – 2016 Forum.
“267 thousand carriers were registered, with more than 780 thousand HGVs exceeding 12 tonnes of gross vehicle weight in the general fleet. Thanks to the control over violators that is provided by the traffic police and the Federal Transportation Inspection Service, we note the daily increase in the registration of 200 to 560 more HGVs, which are owned mostly by private individuals. The vast majority of large Russian companies have been registered. Today, 60% of vehicles registered in the “Platon” system belong to private individuals, 20% to companies and sole traders,” Anton Zamkov noted.
At the exhibition-forum “Transport of Russia – 2016″ an interactive stand of the “Platon” system was presented, in particular, the monitoring system was demonstrated—video transmission in the online mode from the current 194 frames and 100 mobile patrols with the photographic fixation of all passing HGVs. The planned modernisation of the control system is going on. By July of next year, the number of frames on all Russian federal highways will increase up to 491 structures. The stand presented key statistics on the results of the first year of the “Platon” system.
Regions leading in terms of the number of HGVs exceeding 12 tonnes of gross vehicle weight that are registered in the system:
| Subject of the Russian Federation | Number of vehicles registered | |
| Moscow | 61,172 | |
| Moscow Region | 57,027 | |
| Saint Petersburg | 30,804 | |
| Krasnodar Territory | 30,713 | |
| Republic of Tatarstan | 28,993 | |
| Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Ugra | 22,136 | |
| Rostov Region | 22,054 | |
| Sverdlovsk Region | 14,343 | |
| Samara Region | 14,304 | |
| Nizhny Novgorod Region | 13,841 |
Today, the share of fees for on-board units has reached 90%, last December it was 48%. This is due to the fact that most registered users installed on-board units. Toll tickets are used primarily by foreign carriers as one of two methods of payment. In general, 87% of the heavy transporters are equipped with on-board units.
15% of vehicles registered in the “Platon” system belong to foreign carriers from 60 countries of the world.
10 leading countries in terms of the number of registered vehicles:
| Country | Number of vehicles | Share from non-residents | |
| Republic of Belarus | 23,753 | 20.5% | |
| Republic of Kazakhstan | 20,585 | 17.7% | |
| Ukraine | 19,106 | 16.5% | |
| Republic of Poland | 11,031 | 9.5% | |
| Republic of Lithuania | 6,593 | 5.7% | |
| Republic of Latvia | 5,490 | 4.7% | |
| Kyrgyz Republic | 4,262 | 3.7% | |
| Republic of Moldova | 3,747 | 3.2% | |
| Republic of Uzbekistan | 3,373 | 2.9% | |
| Republic of Serbia | 2,208 | 1.9% |
All modern channels of service are open for users of the “Platon” system and all existing methods of payment are available. Freight forwarders can be registered in the system on the website platon.ru or in 138 toll service centres, which are located in each region of the country and near border crossings. The user can top-up their accounts in the “Platon” system account via the customer portal on the website and in the mobile application, through the “Platon” toll collect terminals and self-service terminal of any of the agents (QIWI, Sberbank of Russia). For payment through various channels, the freight forwarders can use cash, bank transfers, payment system cards, E100, DKV and Berlio fuel cards, as well as fuel cards of European issuers Aral, Circle K, BP.
In December of this year, it is planned to launch an account replenishment service from the mobile operators’ balances, and in early 2017 the funds will be received at the cash depots of Lukoil gas stations with cash and bank cards.
Today, users of the “Platon” system most often choose non-cash transfers (72%) to top-up the account. More than 21% of funds come from bank cards, 4% – cash, more than 3% – fuel cards.
“Platon” is developing along with users who are increasingly using remote channels of service and replenishment of the account. Thus, for today 64.6% of payments are made through a customer portal on the Internet website platon.ru, through a self-service terminal of any of the agents – 14.9%, toll collect terminals “Platon” – 9.2%, mobile application – 9.7%, customer service centres – 1.6%.
