2026 AGENDA
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Registration and Welcome Refreshments
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Chair's Opening Remarks
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RUC in Iceland – now charging all vehicles. A success story?
- The success of implementing user charges for all vehicles in Iceland
- Tackling the criticism of the system
- Public opinion, the new system mostly accepted, based on previous success
Speaker
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CO₂-based truck tolls: on the road to clean trucking
- Further reducing the operational costs of zero-emission trucks is key for Europe's industry to switch to clean trucks
- Several EU Member States already apply CO₂-based truck tolls, giving companies the needed investment certainty
- Transitioning to zero-emission trucks can be further aided by the use of new toll revenues
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Field‑Proven, Future‑Ready
- Successful track record of continuous ETC/ENF implementations and operations
- Proven best practices
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Future trends and key takeaways
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Morning Networking Break
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Panel | Tolling & zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles — cutting congestion through smarter, cleaner charging
- Applying emissions-based toll rates to drive ZE-vehicle uptake
- Replacing time-based fees with distance- and congestion-sensitive charging
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Reducing road congestion by incentivising cleaner heavy-duty vehicle use in high-traffic zones
Speakers
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Cybersecurity and Fraud Prevention in Tolling: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
- How license plate cloning and account misuse are being detected more effectively using behavioral patterns
- What signals help identify stolen, synthetic, or duplicate toll accounts earlier
- How to balance automation and human oversight to improve fraud response without increasing operational complexity
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Using EUCARIS in cross-border information exchange
- We need executable EU legislation to support emission based toll
- Data protection is key!!!
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The Registration Authorities and EUCARIS are able to support road charging in Europe
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Transformation of road pricing with digital connectivity
- GNSS‑based tolling is rapidly becoming the foundation for future road user charging schemes
- Fuel tax collapse is making distance-based RUC an urgent and unavoidable transition
- Technological shifts (EVs, GNSS tolling, AVs) are reshaping how RUC must be securely designed, implemented, and politically supported with the necessary legislation changes
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Lunch
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E-volution of Road User Charging: two decades, one connected future
- RUC is shifting from innovation to intelligent connection — linking technologies, markets, and people into an integrated, adaptive ecosystem
- Efficiency, sustainability, and performance now amplify each other, driven by AI-enabled platforms and cross-industry collaboration
- The five E’s (E-mobility, E-nvironment, E-fficiency, E-xtension, E-mpowerment) outline a unified path forward, showing how connected infrastructure and global cooperation shape the next era of Road User Charging
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Evaluating the effectiveness of two congestion limitation policies in Milan Area C: Charge increase and vehicle type
- Vehicle-type restrictions have a stronger impact on reducing car use than price increases alone, suggesting regulatory measures can outperform purely economic tools
- Mobile phone data enable a replicable, people-based metric to assess congestion pricing effects while controlling for time-related factors
- Demographic composition (e.g. women and elderly users) significantly influences transport choices, underscoring the need for equity-aware congestion pricing policies
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Introducing TruckToll in the Netherlands, on the road to July the 1st
- Get the latest update on the implementation of TruckToll
- Learn how the TruckToll will work and how owners of trucks should prepare
- Learn how TruckToll contributes to a sustainable transport sector in the Netherlands
Speakers
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Afternoon networking break
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Innovation Is Never a Straight Line: The DTCO Tolling Journey
- How existing Smart Tachograph infrastructure can be leveraged to enable scalable, low-cost tolling
- Why innovation in regulated environments is non-linear and requires perseverance across stakeholders
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What current DTCO tolling deployments reveal about interoperability, certification, and future road charging models
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Iceland’s New RUC Framework: A Transformation Strategy from Design to Implementation
- How to harmonize RUC approaches for EV, fossil‑fuel passenger cars, and heavy vehicles
- How simplicity in system design becomes a strength for flexibility, clearness and fairness
- How to shape environmental incentives and benchmark them against other industries
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The Toll Charging Service in Germany: EETS Provider Migration and the Parking Information Service
- Centralization Drives Efficiency and Market Access
- Standardized Data Infrastructure Enables Innovation Beyond Core Services
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Successful Large-Scale Migration Requires Careful Change Management
Speakers
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Chair's closing remarks
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Registration and welcome refreshments
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Chair's opening remarks
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The Status of Tolling in Norway: Stable Growth, Potential Options
- Norwegian tolling continues to grow, with increasing traffic volumes reinforcing its role in infrastructure financing
- Future tolling policy may expand beyond major projects, opening the door for funding smaller, targeted improvements
- The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is preparing for the next step in road user charging, including a planned pilot for kilometre‑based tolling
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The way to green enforcement
- CO2 reduction
- Hardware reduction
- Power consumption
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First year of the Danish road toll scheme for trucks and early findings from a trial with 2.200 citizens in passenger cars
- System and user kick-off for trucks and transition to normal operation during 2025
- Early findings regarding a road pricing trial with passenger cars
- Next steps in 2027, 2028 and beyond
Speaker
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Morning Networking Break
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Panel | Rethinking Road User Charging to Meet Tomorrow’s Mobility Needs
- Using technology to make road user charging efficient and sustainable
- Ensuring fair pricing, accessibility, and public trust
- Managing mobility data and planning for future vehicles
Speakers
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State vs. federal mileage-based user fee program perspectives
- Four U.S. states have already implemented MBUF programs, and dozens of other states have conducted research or outreach to study MBUF for their state
- States and the Federal MBUF programs may differ significantly in issues such as outreach, rate setting, technologies, borders, and payment process
- Let’s discuss current and potential processes and technologies for a Federal MBUF program
Speaker
Executive Science and Technology Policy Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Will EV RUC be the path to universal RUC in the US?
- Update on US RUC programs
- Latest opinion polling on RUC and other alternative fees
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The use of EV fees and their evolution
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Lunch
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The Green Congestion Paradox: From Manual Rationing to Equitable Road User Charging in Jakarta
- Understanding "Green Congestion": How operational incentives for EVs (like road access exemptions) can inadvertently worsen gridlock by lowering the cost of private travel, and why RUC must prioritize space management over engine technology
- The Limits of Rationing: Insights into the "policy decay" of manual schemes like Odd-Even due to vehicle ownership shifts, and why dynamic pricing is the only viable successor for megacities
- Solving the Motorcycle Dilemma: Innovative strategies for applying RUC to a mixed-traffic environment dominated by two-wheelers (75%), using tiered pricing to fund free electric public transport alternatives
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Exploring Road Pricing and Tradable Credits in Multi-Actor Transport Systems
- Simple pricing can go a long way. A modest, well-designed cordon toll captures a large share of the attainable system benefits without requiring overly complex differentiation
- Tradable credits are not a silver bullet. While tradable credit schemes can improve political acceptability by redistributing value to users internally, they do not outperform well-designed tolls in terms of transportation efficiency and come with greater implementation complexity
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Governance structure matters. Outcomes change significantly when bus services are privatized or when authorities take different strategic positions — institutional design is as important as price levels
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How to further ETC experience to future distance-based RUC feasibility in Taiwan?
- Road User Charging ETC
- From fuel use to road maintenance fee
- Balance of decarbonisation and equity
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Afternoon Networking Break
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Spain’s toll road concessions in a mixed network: rebalancing road funding and delivering modern charging outcomes
- Spain has the largest European high capacity road network but with no sustainable financial scheme
- 8 toll roads concessions have expired over the last 8 years and tolls have been withdrawn with negative impacts on society
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Policy makers have to face the challenge: The current policy is unsustainable and Spain has to consider the introduction of RUC systems
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Kilometre Charge in the Netherlands, a long and winding road
- What's the problem to be solved
- How does politics deal with RUC
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How to cope with the promise of 'high' tech