Q-Free is a Norwegian intelligent-transport-systems and tolling specialist headquartered in Trondheim. Through Q-Free Portugal it supplied the electronic tolling behind the Via Verde network and runs the back office for Ascendi’s Portuguese motorway tolling, making Portugal one of its flagship reference markets.
Q-Free is a global innovator in intelligent transport systems — tolling, traffic management and road-user charging. Its Portuguese operation helped build Via Verde, the country’s pioneering electronic toll-collection system and an international benchmark, supplying front-end ETC equipment, the back-office platform and some three million on-board units.
Beyond Via Verde, Q-Free’s back-office technology runs road-user-charging operations including Ascendi’s Portuguese motorways, alongside its AutoPASS system in Norway. The company has continued to deepen its Portuguese footprint, launching its Intrada operational back office in the market.
Portugal was an early global adopter of free-flow electronic tolling, and a Norwegian ITS company sits at the heart of that infrastructure. Q-Free is a clear example of Nordic deep-tech embedded in Portuguese public infrastructure — a Direction-A relationship measured in decades of operational presence, not a one-off contract.
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