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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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.
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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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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.
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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 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
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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