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- 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
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Afternoon networking break
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- Research on driver sensitivity to pricing, time-of-day charges, and toll elasticity
- Comparative insights: How responses in the Middle East might differ from Western or Asian cities
- Use of stated preference surveys or big data analytics to model user behaviour
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- 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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- 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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- 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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The concept of EU strategic autonomy and how it is evolving in a more contested global order
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Balancing open markets with resilience: lessons from recent trade and supply-chain shocks
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The role of European universities and research in shaping evidence-based global policy
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- 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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The leading tolling technology company presents an implementation case study together with learnings and future plans
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- 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
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- Road User Charging ETC
- From fuel use to road maintenance fee
- Balance of decarbonisation and equity
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- 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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How existing Smart Tachograph infrastructure can be leveraged to enable scalable, low-cost tolling
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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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- 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
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- What's the problem to be solved
- How does politics deal with RUC
- How to cope with the promise of 'high' tech
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Morning networking break
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Morning networking break
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- 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
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Applying emissions-based toll rates to drive ZE-vehicle uptake
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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
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Using road user charging to reduce congestion and emissions while ensuring fairness for all users
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Lessons from Norway: technology, public acceptance, and policy alignment
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The role of road pricing in funding future-ready, resilient transport infrastructure
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How Spain’s high-capacity road network has been developed over recent decades and the role toll-road concessions have played in that evolution
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The impact of toll deactivations following concession contract expiries between 2019 and 2021, including lessons for funding stability and network performance
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Future expectations for Spain’s road funding and charging landscape, and what peers across Europe can take from Spain’s mixed-network experience
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- 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
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- 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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Centralization Drives Efficiency and Market Access
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Standardized Data Infrastructure Enables Innovation Beyond Core Services
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Successful Large-Scale Migration Requires Careful Change Management
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- CO2 reduction
- Hardware reduction
- Power consumption
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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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We need executable EU legislation to support emission based toll
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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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Update on US RUC programs
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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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