2026 AGENDA
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Registration and Welcome Refreshments
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Chair's Opening Remarks
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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
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Japan’s ETC 2.0 and ETC-only tollgates: what mature operations can teach APAC
- ETC
- ETC2.0 (information service)
- ETC-only tollgates
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From Transport Hubs to Digital Mobility: Building Connected Travel Ecosystems in Southeast Asia
- Design transport around the passenger journey — connect physical operations, information, ticketing and service quality into one seamless experience
- Build partnerships across the ecosystem — align transport operators, terminals, technology platforms and commercial partners to unlock scalable growth
- Turn operational excellence into digital growth — use centralized ticketing, data, customer insight and disciplined execution to improve efficiency, trust and regional mobility
Sponsor
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Morning networking break
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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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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
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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
Sponsor
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Lunch
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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
Sponsor
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Panel: Beyond Physical Plazas: Integrating Virtual Tolling, Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), and Smart Ticketing in Emerging Asian Markets
- How virtual tolling improves payment efficiency and road accessibility
- How electronic road pricing reduces congestion and shapes travel behaviour
- How smart ticketing enhances transport connectivity and commuter convenience
Sponsor
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Afternoon networking break
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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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Chair’s closing remarks
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Registration and welcome refreshments
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Chair's opening remarks
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Fire side chat: 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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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
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From feasibility to readiness: designing a trusted congestion charging pilot for Kuala Lumpur
- From feasibility to pilot readiness through a framework for a Kuala Lumpur congestion charging pilot
- One size does not fit all when adapting pilot design to local conditions
- Testing more than technology by assessing users, enforcement, equity and governance
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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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Policy, Fiscal & Transit Integration
- Bandung's Rank-12 global congestion urgency (81% congestion, IDR 12T annual loss)
- The Dual Paradox: Why zero-tax EV policies erode 76.5% of regional revenue while EVs take identical road space
- The Hybrid Policy Solution: Retaining PKB ownership tax + introducing targeted ERP usage charges
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National University of Singapore Update
- Session details TBC
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Lunch
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Update from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport Cambodia
- Session details TBC
Speaker
Sustainable Transport and Urban Policy Researcher
Ministry of Public Works and Transport Cambodia
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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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Afternoon networking break
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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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Chair’s closing remarks