2026 AGENDA
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Registration and Welcome Refreshments
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Chair's Opening Remarks
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Singapore ERP 2.0: final implementation, migration and operations readiness
- What the final phase of transition means in practice
- Installation, user migration, enforcement and foreign-vehicle handling
- What other APAC cities can learn from a live urban road pricing switchover
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Malaysia’s ANPR open-payment pilot on the North-South Expressway
- How the “lane freedom” pilot is working in practice
- Customer experience, payment architecture and operational lessons
- What it says about Malaysia’s wider transition pathway
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New Zealand’s transition from fuel excise to electronic RUC
- Why the funding model is changing
- Legislative, market-design and technology implications
- What electronic RUC could mean for compliance, competition and future charging models
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Morning networking break
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Panel: Southeast Asia MLFF and interoperability — what is live, what is next and what can scale?
- Current progress across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam
- Interoperability, enforcement and revenue assurance challenges
- Where regional alignment is realistic and where it is not
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Thailand’s M-Flow: barrier-free motorway tolling at scale
- Operational lessons from a live free-flow motorway system
- Customer onboarding, violations and account management
- What the next phase of rollout could look like
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Vietnam’s smart toll collection rollout on state-funded expressways
- Tolling on public expressway assets
- Back-office and enforcement readiness
- Implications for future network monetisation and PPP expansion
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Lunch
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Reforming toll roads in New South Wales: customer outcomes, governance and next steps
- What the post-review direction means in practice
- Implications for operators, motorists and network management
- Lessons for other mature toll-road markets
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Heavy-vehicle charging reform in Australia: what the national debate now means in practice
- Why current charging arrangements are under renewed scrutiny
- Weight, distance, fairness and freight productivity
- What operators and policymakers should watch next
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Panel: Payments, enforcement and back-office readiness — the foundations of successful charging schemes
- Missed charges, account management and payment choice
- Enforcement architecture, notices and foreign-vehicle handling
- Revenue assurance and customer trust after go-live
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Afternoon networking break
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Indonesia’s MLFF transition: sequencing delivery, enforcement and revenue assurance
- Why Indonesia remains strategically important
- Delivery sequencing, legal readiness and customer communications
- Lessons from pilots and phased implementation
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India’s barrier-free tolling pathway: FASTag, ANPR and the road to scale
- What is already being procured and implemented
- How ANPR-RFID MLFF changes plaza operations
- Enforcement, data and migration issues
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Urban road pricing beyond toll roads: Auckland and New Zealand’s time-of-use charging agenda
- Managing congestion, not just funding roads
- Why urban demand management is moving up the agenda
- What city-focused charging design requires to succeed
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From policy to procurement: where APAC road charging opportunities are emerging next
- Which schemes are moving from reform discussion to live delivery
- Where governments, operators and suppliers are likely to focus next
- What this means for procurement, partnerships and market readiness
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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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HKeToll and time-varying tunnel pricing in Hong Kong: operations, payments and user transition
- What urban tolling looks like once pricing becomes dynamic
- Payment migration, customer communications and operational resilience
- Lessons for cities considering pricing beyond fixed tolls
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Japan’s ETC 2.0 and ETC-only tollgates: what mature operations can teach APAC
- Using ETC data more intelligently
- The operational benefits of ETC-only expansion
- What mature systems get right on efficiency and compliance
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Taiwan’s Highway Act reform: road-use charging, EVs and long-term funding
- Why Taiwan widened the charging framework
- Implications for EVs and future charging design
- What this means for long-term funding resilience
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Morning networking break
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Panel: Regional standards, alliances and interoperability — can APAC build a common framework?
- What the Asia-Pacific Road User Charging Alliance can realistically achieve
- Cross-border learning, common terminology and standards
- Where operators and governments need better alignment
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One RFID, All Tollways: interoperability lessons from the Philippines
- What motorists experience when networks genuinely connect
- Back-office coordination between operators
- What other markets can learn from a customer-facing interoperability milestone
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Building public trust in road charging reform
- Pricing transparency, revenue use and fairness
- Communications before and after go-live
- How to make technically sound schemes politically durable
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Lunch
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Seoul’s Namsan Tunnel congestion charge: what a long-running urban pricing scheme still teaches cities
- Why Seoul retained the inbound congestion charge
- How urban pricing can support demand management in dense city corridors
- What newer city schemes can learn from a mature comparator
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Data, pricing and congestion management: turning charging systems into traffic-management tools
- How charging and traffic data can support operations
- Dynamic pricing, network monitoring and incident response
- Where the real value goes beyond toll collection
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EVs, road funding and the next generation of road user charging
- Why EV growth is forcing funding reform
- From fixed charges to distance-based models
- What policymakers need to solve before scale
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Afternoon networking break
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HKeToll after Autotoll: migrating users to new payment options, digital wallets and customer accounts
- What happens when a major payment method exits a live charging ecosystem
- Customer migration, auto-payment alternatives and account continuity
- Lessons for operators designing resilient payment architecture
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Delivering the next phase of APAC road charging: operating models, partnerships and investment priorities
- Which delivery models are proving most resilient
- What public authorities need from operators and suppliers next
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Where funding, policy and technology priorities are converging
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Chair’s closing remarks