The North Carolina Department of Transportation partners with The Eastern Transportation Coalition (TETC) to study the feasibility of implementing a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) for the collection of revenues to support transportation infrastructure. TETC is a multistate partnership focused on bringing agencies together to develop implementable solutions that

improve our transportation system. To address the need for a sustainable transportation funding approach, TETC and NCDOT have collaborated on public opinion surveys, geographic equity analysis, and real-world demonstration pilots. This presentation will focus on how TETC MBUF work addresses privacy, rural drivers and the trucking industry; how North Carolina has explored MBUF and what next steps are being taken to address remaining implementation barriers.

• This presentation will provide an overview of Utah's evolving RUC, tolling and connected vehicle efforts, the RUCWest 10-year plan, and major developments across the western states regarding road usage pilots.

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• Government are looking at how to invest in new congestion toll lanes to go on many highway areas
• Consider how to reduce climate warming pollution by reducing car commuters and to travel by transit trips
• Look how to drastically transform travel by 2020

• How will Los Angeles impose congestion pricing
• How will this change the public perception of congestion pricing?
• Will this reduce congestion in the city?

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• President Biden signed a law last November that includes US$125m to test road charging at all levels in the USA in the next five years as the nation considers this option to finance infrastructure in the future. Money is included for pilots at the state and local levels as well as an ambitious national pilot to study the effects of a national pilot on this large nation. 

• HDOT recently completed the Hawaii Road Usage Charge Demonstration project that reached out to almost 360,000 Hawaii residents with customized driving reports showing the number of miles they had driven over the past year, how much they had paid in gas taxes, and how much they might pay in a road usage charge. Leveraging the existing vehicle inspection and registration systems offers a lower cost way to report vehicle mileage using a process that the community is familiar with, requires no extra work, and has a level of trust already established. This presentation will cover:

   

• What HDOT accomplished
• What HDOT learned
• Next steps for Hawaii

The Commuter Choice program, administered by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC), reinvests toll revenues from two principal expressway corridors in the Northern Virginia portion of the Washington, DC metropolitan area into transit improvements and other multimodal transportation enhancements that expand commuters’ travel options and support corridor mobility goals. This presentation will address:

 

• How the program operates, the public-private and state-regional-local partnerships involved, the program’s rigorous performance management framework and how NVTC ensures that the program delivers maximum value to toll payers.
• How to invest toll revenues defensibly into non-roadway projects
• The partnerships critical to the success of a competitive transportation grant program funded through toll revenues
• Necessity of rigorous performance analysis and program transparency

The generational replacement of the electronic toll system based on DSRC technology with a modern GNSS solution has brought huge savings to the Czech Republic. Operating costs fell by two-thirds, even though the toll road network expanded by 60% to cover highways and lower-class roads. Experience from Slovakia has proven that GNSS tolling is a suitable method for charging of all road types, including urban areas. But what possibilities and bottlenecks have been identified from pilot projects of regional interoperability among Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia compared to the introduction of pan-European interoperability using service providers? This presentation will why:

 

· Replacement of old DSRC toll systems may be a way to achieve significant financial savings

· GNSS tolling is the most suitable for charging of all type of the roads

· Interoperability using GNSS gives a seamless way for users and reduce burdens

• Understanding the equity implications of road pricing and other innovative transportation policies in the six-county Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region
• How to combine stakeholder engagement, technical analyses, and communications strategies to elevate equity considerations as a key touchstone in planning for road pricing in the greater Los Angeles region