2025 AGENDA
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Registration and Welcome Refreshments
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Chair's Opening Remarks
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Utah’s Voluntary Road Usage Charge (RUC) Program
- Pilot Overview & Evolution: Cover Utah’s voluntary RUC pilot initiated in January 2020—designed for electric, plug‑in hybrid, and hybrid vehicles—as an alternative to fuel tax Program Funding & Federal Support: Discuss how four federal STSFA grants ($3.245 million total) have supported UDOT’s implementation and enhancements
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Mileage Based User Fees – a State and Federal Perspective
- Overview of the latest updates on U.S. State and Federal programs
- Examination of State and Federal perspectives on key transportation funding issues
- Comparison of core RUC/MBUF program characteristics, highlighting similarities and differences
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Trucks are just like any other vehicle, only bigger… right? WRONG!
- Commercial motor vehicles are subject to extensive regulations, fees, and reporting requirements far beyond those for passenger vehicles, including mileage tracking and hours-of-service logging
- The International Registration Plan (IRP) streamlined interstate registration, reducing administrative burdens by enabling carriers to register through a base state with fees distributed to other jurisdictions
- Road Usage Charge (RUC) programs must consider the complex regulatory environment for commercial vehicles; inconsistent state-level requirements could recreate the inefficiencies IRP was designed to eliminate
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Truck Tolling in Rhode Island: Policy Framework and Implementation
- Policy perspective: Truck only Tolling
- An overview of Rhode Island’s tolling system
- How truck tolling plays a role in the state’s infrastructure funding methodology
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Morning networking break
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Panel Discussion: Rethinking Road Funding: A Tax Policy Perspective on Road Usage Charging
- Aligning with the User-Pays Principle
- Are mileage fees taxes or user fees?
- Ensuring Equity and Efficiency
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What Should RUC Accomplish and What Should It Fund
- RUC as a road user fee and RUC to solve externalities are two different things
- There may be both conflicts and opportunities in mixing goals.
- RUC may have effects we plan for and may have unanticipated effects
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Lunch and Networking Break
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Expanding User Fees for Transportation: Roads and Beyond
- User-pays is an effective way to fund major infrastructure
- Replacing fuel taxes with a VMT tax is a better user-fee model
- Using user fees for highways could cut the federal deficit by $200B in 10 years
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Navigating the Future of Road User Charging
- Lessons from around the world
- Emerging tolling trends in Europe
- Developments in the Middle East and Africa
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Afternoon networking break
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Trust and Transparency: Foundations for Implementing Equitable Congestion Pricing
- Explores how trust-building and transparent engagement shape successful pricing policies
- Highlights global case studies where equity and legitimacy drove public support
- Shares research insights on aligning stakeholder interests to move from policy design to action
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Building Trust: Community-Driven Approaches to Delivering Toll Projects in North Carolina
- Applying past challenges to build more responsive, community-focused project delivery
- Strategies for fostering community trust in toll and P3 projects
- How stakeholder input and priorities can influence project delivery
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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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Enhancing Traffic Flow using Existing Geometry: The East Selmon Slip Ramp Project
- Overcoming right of way constraints
- Phasing construction to accelerate improvements
- Reversible lane technology
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Trials and tribulations of infrastructure funding in Washoe County
- Legislative strategies
- Alternative funding mechanisms
- Tax tolerance limits
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Morning networking break
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Eliminating Traffic Congestion through Real-Time, Network-Wide Road Pricing
- The real-time, network-wide pricing of road use can eliminate all traffic congestion
- There are no longer any technological barriers to the adoption of real-time pricing of road use
- Real-time, network-wide pricing of road use is the only way that traffic congestion can be eliminated
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Professor, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and Founding Director
Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP)
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Road Pricing and Regional Transportation Planning
- How regions can plan for the shift from gas tax to road pricing
- The Seattle region’s approach to road pricing policy
- Next steps to incorporate road pricing in Washington State
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Panel Discussion: The Future of Road User Charging in the Americas
- Long-term trends in tolling and RUC system evolution
- Balancing innovation, equity, and sustainability in RUC models
- Predictions for RUC’s role in transforming transportation funding Christian Schonlau
Speakers
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Chair’s closing remarks
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Lunch and afternoon networking break