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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Operational Lessons from Thailand’s M-Flow: User Registration, Payment Behavior, and Enforcement
  • Clear communication: Explain why M-Flow exists and how charges are calculated
  • Fairness and transparency: Make payments, penalties, and dispute processes transparent
  • User rights and trust: Protect data, fix errors quickly, and provide responsive support
Speaker
President
ITS Thailand
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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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Road User Charging 2.0: Balancing Affordability, Mobility, Sustainability and Investor Confidence
  • Reframe road user charging as a strategic enabler of mobility, economic growth and sustainable infrastructure—not merely a mechanism for collecting tolls
  • Adopt a balanced decision-making framework that integrates Affordability, Mobility, Sustainability and Investor Confidence to support effective policy and investment decisions
  • Lead through collaboration and innovation by fostering partnerships that build public trust, accelerate digital transformation and deliver resilient transport systems for the future
Speaker
Director of Finance
Ministry of Investment, Trade & Industry, Malaysia
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InstaToll update
  • The leading independent highway operator in Southern Africa is engaged on the North-South Corridor Initiative, and in a multitude of projects as both a co-developer and as an operations & maintenance collaborator for roads and bridges. InstaToll operates more than 200 toll lanes and 1,500 kilometers of roads, with a team of over 1,000 employees in Southern Africa. They generate upwards of half a million USD in daily revenue for clients, with the busiest toll plaza accommodating 45,000 vehicles per day
Speakers
Chief Operations Officer
InstaToll
Chief Executive Officer
InstaToll

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Lunch
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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
Speaker
Counselor
Taipei City Government
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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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A nation of contradictions: Decentralized governance as a barrier and catalyst to US road user charging
  • Understanding of decentralized road governance and funding in the United States and the relationship between the federal government and states
  • The current state of RUC activities in the United States and where research and implementation is heading
  • How the latest federal surface transportation reauthorization and looming federal fiscal challenges may impact the trajectory of RUC adoption in the United States
Speaker
Senior Transportation Policy Analyst
Reason Foundation
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
  • Where funding, policy and technology priorities are converging
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Chair’s closing remarks