ARTERIS SA Corporate Taxpayer's ID (CNPJ/MF): 02.919.555/0001-67 Company Registry (NIRE): 35.300.322.746
A Arteris S.A. (Novo Mercado listing segment of the BM&FBovespa: ARTR3) hereby announces to the market its 4Q15 tolled traffic report for its state and federal concessionaires, reflecting the total number of vehicle- equivalents registered in the Company's toll plazas in the fourth quarter of 2015.
State Concessions | 52,197 | 53,201 | 54,129 | -1.9% | -3.6% | 204,458 | 213,096 | -4.1% |
Autovias | 11,844 | 12,087 | 12,412 | -2.0% | -4.6% | 46,774 | 48,939 | -4.4% |
Centrovias | 14,261 | 14,349 | 14,935 | -0.6% | -4.5% | 55,330 | 58,336 | -5.2% |
Intervias | 16,595 | 16,902 | 16,940 | -1.8% | -2.0% | 64,967 | 66,937 | -2.9% |
Vianorte | 9,497 | 9,862 | 9,841 | -3.7% | -3.5% | 37,387 | 38,885 | -3.9% |
Federal Concessions | 118,816 | 116,838 | 135,920 | 1.7% | -12.6% | 476,165 | 513,198 | -7.2% |
Planalto Sul | 6,436 | 6,476 | 7,572 | -0.6% | -15.0% | 26,462 | 30,185 | -12.3% |
Fluminense | 11,431 | 11,210 | 12,974 | 2.0% | -11.9% | 45,934 | 48,653 | -5.6% |
Fernão Dias | 37,827 | 37,585 | 42,440 | 0.6% | -10.9% | 150,652 | 164,275 | -8.3% |
Régis Bittencourt | 32,737 | 32,684 | 38,556 | 0.2% | -15.1% | 133,668 | 148,263 | -9.8% |
Litoral Sul | 30,385 | 28,884 | 34,378 | 5.2% | -11.6% | 119,449 | 121,823 | -1.9% |
Total | 171,013 | 170,040 | 190,048 | 0.6% | -10.0% | 680,623 | 726,295 | -6.3% |
* The vehicle equivalent unit is used as the basis for charging tolls. A passenger vehicle is considered as one vehicle equival ent, while the number of vehicle equivalents attributed to commercial vehicles (trucks and buses) is calculated by their number of axles, with each axle being equivalent to one passenger vehicle.
The reduction in tolled vehicle volume in recent quarters was due to the shrinkage of economic activity in Brazil as a whole, reflected in a downturn in industrial output and GDP, in turn leading to a substantial decline in traffic last quarter. However, although the number of vehicle equivalents fell by 10% in 4Q15, absolute vehicle volume fell by only 4.7% in the quarter and 2.6% in the year.
Another factor which contributed to the traffic downturn was the application, since April 2015, of the Truck Drivers' Law, which eliminated the charge on the suspended axles of empty heavy vehicles on the federal highways and whose impact was rebalanced by the annual contractual tariff revision. If this law had not been in effect, fourth-quarter federal highway and consolidated tolled traffic would have fallen by 8.3% and 6.8%, respectively, over 4Q14, with a respective annual decline of 4.0% in both comparisons.
São Paulo, February 10, 2016.
Investor Relations Officer
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