PYT - Pay Your Tolls

What it does

"The first fully functional road toll script in Transport Fever history!"

✅ Checked with TF3's first stability update (build 40420) — 9 October 2026

⭐ Top 50 most popular TF3 mods on mod.io — #41 of 1,995, reached within two weeks of the game's release (12 October 2026)

❓ Many people ask: will tolls change the way traffic chooses its route? Not currently. Transport Fever 3's route choice doesn't take our toll charges into account, and our research hasn't found a supported way to make drivers avoid a road because of its price. For now, the practical way to take traffic off a road is to offer a faster alternative. (You could cut the speed on your whole motorway instead… but that kills the immersion!) We're open to suggestions: if you've cracked this last piece of the puzzle, tell us in the comments — we'll build it in as fast as we can, and credit you for it.

How to start

1. Road menu > the PYT tab > Toll Sign, Toll Gantry or Toll Plaza
2. Drop it on a busy road — it snaps into place and picks its own size
3. Click it, or PYT in the top bar, to watch it earn

Works with pyt - minimap

See every toll on your map — and which one earns you the most cash. Size them by cars or by income, this month, this year or all time, and click any toll to fly straight to it.

👉 Get PYT - Minimap — free, and it works with this mod straight away.

Deutsch? Eine Kurzfassung auf Deutsch findet ihr weiter unten.

What you can build

(road menu > the PYT tab)

• Toll Sign — in the style of its era: a 1900 gas lantern, a 1940 electric lamp, a 1980 light bar, a 2020 sign with glowing letters. It snaps beside the road, or choose Free to place it anywhere — even on another toll booth model to make it collect tolls.
• Toll Gantry — a Wooden Turnpike before 1980, then the steel gantry (pick its era any time). It snaps across any road at the right size — one-way or two-way, 1 to 3 lanes — and follows when the road is widened.
• Toll Plaza — a stretch of road that is the toll, in the style you choose, staffed by toll keepers.
• Entry / Exit Signs — TOLL AHEAD and THANK YOU boards: an entry, an exit, or one on each side.
• Lights — the plazas' own lamps, for any road; the twin lamp sits on the centre line.

A Toll Sign or Gantry costs $25,000 and $500 a year to run; a Toll Plaza $50,000 and $1,000 a year — scaled to the era like everything else.

What’s in the box — 169 models in a 16 mb download

• 24 toll plazas — 1900 timber plazas in all six sizes (one-way and two-way, 1 to 3 lanes), the 1900 Toll Barn, the 1900 Grand Gateway and the 1980 Toll Way canopy in three sizes each, plus 9 “under construction” plazas
• 6 toll gantries — the 1980 steel gantry in five sizes and the snap-on gantry
• 9 toll signs — 1900, 1940, 1980 and 2020, with kerbside versions
• 70 entry / exit boards — TOLL AHEAD and THANK YOU in every era, each with its speed limit
• 54 lights — 6 lamp designs (single and twin), each in era, warm-yellow and white light at three brightnesses
• Barriers and arrows — the Timber Rail, a white barrier nose and three chevron markers

Add PYT - Harbour City and PYT - 1940 Home Front and their plazas, gantries, signs, lamps and barriers join the same buttons.

Click any toll

Every toll has its own window: a live camera view, cars and trucks counted, money earned (lifetime, this year, this month), its price, its speed and its road signs — and for a Toll Plaza, its keepers.

The Pay Your Tolls window

(PYT in the top bar > the Pay Your Tolls tab)

• Every toll with a picture of its type, its cars, trucks / buses and revenue
• Click a price or a speed to change it; sort by any column; rename a toll or jump the camera to it
• Tolls close together on one road show as one toll point
• Move a toll's name and takings to a new one

The council

When a town widens a road over your sign, the council puts up a new one at the kerb, at its own cost.

Settings

(the gear under the toll list)

• Price per car and per truck / bus
• Traffic multiplier (x1-500) — the game simulates only a share of real traffic, so each vehicle's toll is multiplied (default: $3 x 200 = $600 a car). Set x1 for realistic low tolls.
• Toll slow zones on / off
• Performance tuner — Light / Balanced / Accurate — with live graphs of what the mod costs your game

Smooth by design

We went to great lengths to keep your game running smoothly. Big jobs — upgrading your tolls, road works, new signs — are spread out a little at a time, so a change might not happen instantly, but it happens at the best moment and your world keeps running smoothly. Watch what the mod costs your game, live, in Settings.

Fair tolls

Each vehicle pays once every 20 seconds, at whichever toll it reaches first — so stacking tolls earns nothing extra. People walking past don't count.

Languages

English, Deutsch, Français, Русский, Svenska and Українська — thank you Tuvka, Zeni, Kristina and Wenche! (German and French are auto-translated — corrections welcome.)

Help us improve

Something not working, or missing a feature you'd love? Leave a comment — every one gets read, and fixes usually land within days.

Follow TheEpod on mod.io (click the name at the top of this page) to hear about new PYT mods first.

Version 3.0.1 — PYT — Created by Epod, built by the world.

📓 A gift to all my fellow modders: Transport Fever Modder Field Notes — everything we have learned building these mods, free for anyone to use.

Watch it

A big thank-you to SeniacTWO for featuring Pay Your Tolls in 5 MORE MODS YOU NEED in Transport Fever 3! Watch him discover the mod and put those toll booths to work. 😁

Watch the Pay Your Tolls segment (starts at 5:35)

Thanks for the feature, SeniacTWO — it's fantastic seeing PYT out in the wild!

A big thank-you to Chris & Ingo for a whole episode on Pay Your Tolls! (in German)

Watch: Modvorstellung — Mautgebühren (Chris & Ingo)

💡 Tip: Toll Ways size themselves — drop one on any two-way road and it matches it (1 to 3 lanes each way), and follows when you widen or narrow the road.

Screenshots

Latest update

3.0.1 — CONSOLE FRIENDLY

⏳ This update is pending approval — the current version for download is 3.0. It works fine on PC. Console players: please don’t open its window until this update is live.

Our windows politely asked the PlayStation for a close button. The PlayStation doesn't have one, took offence and walked out — taking your whole interface with it. We've had a word.

• In plain terms: on PS5, clicking the PYT button no longer crashes the interface. On PC nothing changes
• Thanks: to Maxmadimus for reporting it, and for pinning down exactly which button

📜 Every update so far, in English and German: tfbpx.com/pyt-pay-your-tolls-history.html

Full update history →

More PYT mods

• Blueprint Exchange
• Drone
• Harbour City
• 1940 Home Front
• Town Signs
• Distance Signs
• Mega Warehouse
• Speed Signs
• Factory Buffer
• Minimap
• A+ (Advanced Auto Naming)
• Tram Doctor
• Early Mixed Cargo Trucks
• Late Mixed Cargo Trucks
• Load Planner
• Mixed Cargo Vanilla Conversion Kit