2027 AGENDA
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Registration and welcome refreshments
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Chair's opening remarks
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The future of European road charging – from Eurovignette reform to full-scale implementation
- How EU road charging policy is evolving around infrastructure funding, decarbonisation and interoperability
- What CO₂-based tolling means for Member States, toll chargers, operators, EETS providers and fleets
- What policymakers and industry should expect from the next phase of EETS, enforcement and tolling harmonisation
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Alsace R-Pass: regional HGV charging, transit traffic and the rise of sub-national road user charging
- Why regional authorities are using HGV charging to manage transit traffic and infrastructure costs
- How GNSS, EETS integration and cross-border interoperability can support regional charging schemes
- What the Alsace model reveals about the future of sub-national road user charging in Europe
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Skytoll Update
- SkyToll is a technology company that creates electronic toll systems for roads and highways. It uses technologies like GPS, satellites, and digital systems to help governments collect road fees without needing traditional toll booths. The company helps manage traffic, make toll payments easier, and support the maintenance of roads.
Sponsor
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Morning networking break
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Panel: Interoperability in practice - one contract, one OBU, one user experience?
- What interoperability actually means for fleets, drivers, toll chargers and EETS providers
- where commercial, technical and regulatory tensions still prevent a seamless user experience
- how account-based models, smartphone tolling and digital platforms could change
Sponsor
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EFKON Update
- EFKON GmbH is a technology company that develops systems for electronic toll collection and smart transportation. It creates solutions that help governments and road operators collect road fees automatically without traditional toll booths. EFKON uses technologies such as GPS, cameras, and digital communication to manage traffic and improve road travel. The company works on areas like toll systems, vehicle tracking, and intelligent transportation services. Its main goal is to make transport safer, more efficient, and easier to manage through technology.
Sponsor
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Comfort Break
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C-ITS and road charging: neighbours not only in the frequency bands – we are serving the same community
- Governance is more important than technologies
- Cooperation based on aligned strategies between all stakeholders is key
- We are focusing on interoperable services supporting seamless travelling across Europe
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London’s multi-layer urban pricing system: Congestion Charge, ULEZ and future evolution
- How London’s Congestion Charge and ULEZ schemes are evolving to address traffic, emissions and funding pressures
- What recent changes to charges, exemptions and cleaner vehicle discounts reveal about the future of urban pricing
- What other cities can learn from London about public acceptance, scheme adaptation and long-term political durability
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Romania’s transition to next-generation road user charging: from vignette to distance-based charging
- How Romania is moving from time-based vignettes to digitally enabled distance-based charging
- What implementation challenges arise around user migration, enforcement and system readiness
- How “user pays” and “polluter pays” principles can be operationalised in a new national model
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Lunch and networking break
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The Future of Road User Charging in Norway: From GNSS Pilot to Wider Rollout
- Norway is progressing with its GNSS-based kilometre charging pilot, providing insight into the future of road user charging
- The pilot could help shape how distance-based charging is implemented and expanded across Norway
- With the results of the pilot emerging, what could be the next steps for GNSS-based road user charging in Norway?
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Panel: CO₂-based tolling and Eurovignette implementation – climate policy, revenue tool or fleet transition lever?
- Whether CO₂-based tolling under the revised Eurovignette framework can materially accelerate freight decarbonisation and fleet renewal
- How emissions-linked tariffs affect logistics operating costs, routing, competitiveness, customer pricing and administrative burden
- How policymakers can balance climate incentives, infrastructure revenue, cross-border consistency and the practical realities facing freight operators
Speakers
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Afternoon networking break
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Introducing CO₂ into the DarsGo tolling system: operational lessons from Slovenia
- How DARS is integrating CO₂ classification into the established DarsGo tolling system
- What Directive 1999/62/EC means for business processes, tariff design and operational delivery
- How CO₂-based tolling affects EETS integration, customer communication and system management
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The Dutch truck tolling scheme: from implementation to operation
- How demonstrating clear benefits, including the reinvestment of toll revenues into subsidies and incentives for more sustainable road transport, can strengthen stakeholder support for a new charging scheme
- Why early, sustained communication and thorough preparation, testing and accreditation are critical to building trust, managing expectations and reducing operational risk
- How a controlled, user-centric approach to enforcement, combined with an agile operational organisation, can help address technical, contractual, policy and communication issues as they arise.
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Flux Libre: The Future of Seamless Road Charging
- How Flux Libre is reshaping the road user experience
- Technology & Enforcement — The role of ANPR, digital payments and automated charging
- What Flux Libre means for smarter, barrier-free tolling
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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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Beyond the dedicated toll OBU: Switzerland’s forward-looking GNSS model for HVC III
- How Switzerland’s new HVC III architecture enables the toll charger to focus on its core responsibilities while approved service providers collect journey data from vehicles subject to the charge
- How the model is designed to scale across different vehicle volumes and tariff models
- How an open architecture can accommodate future journey-data collection solutions and help reduce overall system costs
Speaker
Senior Expert Road User Charging
Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS), Switzerland
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Lithuania’s smartphone-based GNSS tolling transformation: a new model for low-friction national charging?
- How smartphone-enabled GNSS tolling can support lower-cost national distance-based charging
- What user onboarding, app-based payment and enforcement challenges must be solved
- Whether smartphone tolling could provide a scalable model for smaller, emerging or transition markets
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Skytoll Update
- SkyToll is a technology company that creates electronic toll systems for roads and highways. It uses technologies like GPS, satellites, and digital systems to help governments collect road fees without needing traditional toll booths. The company helps manage traffic, make toll payments easier, and support the maintenance of roads.
Sponsor
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Morning networking break
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CO2-based tolling: national approaches, revenue implications, and zero-emission truck incentives
- How selected countries are implementing CO2-based tolling schemes
- Toll savings: the Eurovignette Directive as a key policy lever for transport companies to adopt zero-emission trucks
- Revenue implications: how CO2-based tolls are acceleraring investment in clean freight
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Panel: The future of HGV road charging - funding infrastructure for a changing transport landscape
- How evolving transport trends are changing infrastructure funding models and the future of road charging
- The role of HGV charging in balancing investment needs with freight sector priorities
- The opportunities and challenges in building sustainable, future-ready charging systems
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Comfort Break
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Reason Foundation Update
- The Reason Foundation is a nonprofit organization that studies public issues and suggests ways to improve government and society. It supports ideas like personal freedom, free markets, and less government control. The group researches topics such as schools, transportation, healthcare, and laws. It shares its ideas through reports, articles, and its magazine, Reason. Its main goal is to promote policies that give people more choices and independence.
Sponsor
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What US MBUF pilots reveal about EV taxation, equity and public acceptance
- What passenger-car MBUF pilots reveal about mileage reporting, payment options, privacy and user choice
- How EV adoption is changing the road funding debate for light vehicles, households and motorists
- Why equity, education and political communication remain central to moving from pilots to policy
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Oxfordshire County Council update
- Session details TBC
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Lunch and networking break
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Dubai Salik: urban tolling, digital payments and the commercialisation of road charging
- How Dubai operates a barrier-free urban tolling system at high transaction volumes
- What Salik’s listed-company model reveals about the commercialisation of urban toll operations
- How digital accounts, payment experience, customer management and network expansion support urban mobility and revenue strategy
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Singapore ERP 2.0: building the platform for next-generation urban road pricing
- How Singapore is transitioning from gantry-based electronic road pricing to a satellite-capable platform
- What user onboarding, on-board unit deployment and public communication lessons can be applied elsewhere
- Why future-ready platforms matter even before distance-based urban charging is introduced
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Chair's closing remarks