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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The road funding cliff: what replaces fuel duty in an electrified vehicle market?
- Why electrification is forcing governments to rethink how cars, vans and commercial vehicles pay for road use
- How mileage-based, usage-based and EV-specific charging models could supplement or replace declining fuel duty revenue
- What political, technical and public acceptance risks must be addressed before passenger-car road user charging can scale
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Netherlands truck toll: launching a national kilometre-based HGV charge in 2026
- How the Netherlands has prepared to replace the Eurovignette with a national distance-based truck toll
- What implementation lessons are emerging around service providers, enforcement and user readiness
- How tariff design can support infrastructure funding, environmental objectives and freight compliance
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Germany’s Lkw-Maut: CO₂ differentiation, scale and the next phase of Europe’s largest HGV tolling market
- How Germany operates distance-based HGV charging at national scale
- How CO₂ components are changing the cost base for road freight and fleet decision-making
- What other markets can learn from Germany’s approach to enforcement, compliance and system maturity
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Morning networking break
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Panel: From fuel tax to road user charging – fairness, trust and the politics of public acceptance
- How governments can communicate the fiscal case for road user charging without triggering public backlash
- What fairness, equity, privacy, rural-versus-urban and household-cost concerns must be addressed in scheme design
- How education, transparency, payment choice, exemptions and visible reinvestment can improve trust and compliance
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New Zealand RUC modernisation: opening a mature road user charging system to digital providers
- What Europe can learn from one of the world’s most mature distance-based road charging systems
- How electronic distance recorders and approved provider models can modernise RUC delivery for light and heavy vehicles
- How data protection, provider monitoring and user choice can be built into a digital RUC framework
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Belgium’s reformed HGV tolling model: embedding CO₂ and environmental differentiation into road charging
- How Belgium is evolving HGV tolling around environmental performance and vehicle characteristics
- How distance, weight, Euro class and CO₂ considerations can be combined in tariff design
- What cross-border freight, enforcement and compliance lessons can be drawn from the Belgian model
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Poland e-TOLL: GNSS-based charging, enforcement and emissions-linked freight policy at national scale
- How Poland operates GNSS-based distance charging across a national road network
- How digital accounts, enforcement and compliance are managed for domestic and international freight users
- What other authorities can learn from Poland’s approach to scalable, emissions-sensitive HGV charging
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Lunch and 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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ASFiNAG and Austria’s GO toll: CO₂-based HGV charging, digital enforcement and operator delivery
- How Austria is applying CO₂-based differentiation within an established mileage-based HGV tolling system
- How digital enforcement, user accounts and vehicle classification support operational performance
- What other operators can learn from ASFiNAG’s approach to charging, compliance and customer management
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Panel: CO₂-based tolling – climate policy, revenue tool or fleet transition lever?
- Whether CO₂-based tolling can materially accelerate freight decarbonisation and fleet renewal
- How emissions-linked tariffs affect operating costs, routing, competitiveness and customer pricing
- How policymakers can balance climate incentives, infrastructure revenue, cross-border consistency and fleet realities
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Afternoon networking break
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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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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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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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Chair's closing remarks
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Registration and welcome refreshments
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Chair's opening remarks
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EETS in 2027: what it will take to create a truly interoperable European tolling market
- What progress has been made towards a more interoperable European tolling market
- Which barriers remain around certification, toll domain statements, enforcement and service provider access
- How CO₂-based charging, GNSS tolling and account-based models could reshape the EETS landscape
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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 cross-border tolling
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Enforcement without borders: ANPR, GNSS, data exchange and unpaid toll recovery
- How authorities and operators can tackle non-payment, fraud, cloned plates and foreign vehicle enforcement
- What data exchange, evidence quality and legal constraints shape cross-border toll recovery
- How enforcement systems can be effective, proportionate and publicly defensible
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Morning networking break
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Italy’s motorway tolling transition: concession operators, free-flow charging and digital user experience
- How Italy’s motorway tolling market is modernising around digital payment, concession operations and user experience
- What multi-lane free-flow and ANPR-supported charging could mean for traffic flow, enforcement and operations
- How operators can balance infrastructure investment, customer service and revenue protection in a large toll network
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Trust by design: privacy, communication and public acceptance in digital road charging
- How GNSS, ANPR, smartphone tolling and account-based systems create privacy and public trust challenges
- How governments can communicate road charging reforms clearly, transparently and credibly
- How fairness, consent, data governance, education and visible user benefits can improve public acceptance
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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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Lunch and networking break
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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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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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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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Afternoon networking break
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Connected vehicles, digital payments and the future of passenger-car and fleet road user charging
- How connected vehicles, in-vehicle payments and OEM platforms could reshape tolling, RUC, parking, fuelling, EV charging and fleet accounts
- How AI and automation can improve classification, anomaly detection, payment processing, customer experience and revenue protection
- What governance, cybersecurity, liability, interoperability and user-consent questions must be solved before embedded charging scales
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From strategy to tenders: how to procure road user charging systems that can scale
- How authorities can define outcomes, KPIs and risk allocation before going to market
- Which procurement models reduce integration risk, supplier lock-in, cybersecurity exposure, delivery delays and political risk
- How pilots, transition planning, user testing and contract governance can help schemes scale successfully
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Chair's closing remarks