Driving abroad: permits, tolls, vignettes and low emission zones

Permits, motorway tolls and low emission zone stickers for drivers heading abroad, checked against government and road operator pages.

Driving in another country comes with paperwork that your home licence does not cover. Depending on where you go, that can mean an international driving permit, a way to pay motorway tolls, a vignette for a whole network or a sticker for a city's low emission zone. The posts in this topic take each item from the pages of the government or road operator that issues or runs it, and say when those pages were read.

Prices, deadlines and zone rules change, so these guides give the date of each source and send you to the official calculator or order page instead of copying figures that go stale. They also say what is not covered and who to ask.

Start with the international driving permit guide to find out whether you need a permit for your destination, and read how to get an international driving permit when you do. For the French motorways, French tolls explained covers lanes, badges and barrier-free tolls, and the Crit'Air sticker guide covers the low emission zones in French cities.