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2024 Agenda

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  1. Registration and Breakfast Buffet
  2. Registration and Breakfast Buffet
    • Shared Mobility: The rise of ride-sharing and car-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, and their impact on urban transportation and infrastructure
    • Electrification: The shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) and the necessary changes in charging infrastructure, incentives, and regulatory frameworks
    • Automation: The advent of autonomous vehicles and their potential to revolutionize traffic management, safety, and road usage
    • Creates an Advisory Board to provide recommendations related to the structure, scope, and methodology for developing and implementing a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee pilot program.
    • Assists with designing and carrying out a public awareness campaign for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee and pilot test.
    • Conducts a National Pilot Test including all 50 States and the territories of Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
    • Reports to Congress with pilot test results on HTF revenue generation, stability of funding, ease of administration, resistance to fraud, viable technologies, ease/convenience of operation, equity, privacy, and levels of public acceptance at a national scale.
    • Why Metro is studying congestion pricing in LA County
    • How pricing combined with reinvestment and assistance programs can ease traffic, speed up buses, reduce pollution and enhance access to opportunity
    • Why political buy-in and public support for pricing can be challenging but are critical
    • Both require an onboard unit to track vehicle movement and charge appropriate fees. The onboard unit within the vehicles must link to a registered account and individual responsible for payment. 
    •  Reciprocity between State, local transportation providers enable transaction integration. 
    • Enforcement policies and cost-effective solutions ensure compliance. 
    • Public education and communication regarding rationale and procedures is essential for acceptance
    • Outline principles to advance equity in the design and impact of road user charge 

    • Outline community engagement processes in the design and implementation of road user charge

    • Provide an example of a city that has incorporated these equity principles and processes into their pricing strategy

    • Inflationary factors are limiting the ability to build and maintain transportation networks
    • Indexing revenue sources to inflation can ensure future funding matches construction costs at the time of delivery
    • How to incorporate indexing into a RUC for sustainable transportation funding
  3. Morning Networking Break
  4. Morning Networking Break
    • How and why DMVs are integral to the success of a RUC program

    • Stressing the need for interagency cooperation

    • What considerations to review if looking for a DMV to administer a RUC

    • Distance-based charging
    • Electronic tolling integrations
    • Local option technologies
    • Examples from US states that have been successful in their bids
    • How to ensure you get the maximum grant possible
    • What to do and what not to do
    • Exploring the differences and synergies between these systems
    • Which is more effective?
    • What does a tolling infrastructure that incorporates RUC look like?
  5. Lunch & Networking Break
  6. Lunch & Networking Break
    • How have states started their RUC journey?
    • What are the pros and cons of different approaches to starting work on RUC?
    • How do federal RUC programs influence state choices?
    • Exploring how less traditional financing methods can be integrated with traditional public-private partnerships to fund EV charging infrastructure projects
    • Understanding how less traditional financing methods could make EV charging infrastructure more accessible across different communities
    • Analyzing the role of less traditional financing methods in accelerating the deployment of EV charging infrastructure, particularly in underserved areas
    • Lessons learned
    • Updated figures
    • Planning for the future
    • Overview of the scheme
    • Pilot conclusions
    • Future recommendations
    • The latest tolling trends in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and America
    • How EVs are impacting RUCs
    • Lessons from around the world
    • Why gas taxes are no longer feasible
    • Sustainable alternatives to the gas tax
    • Public perceptions of Road Usage Charges (RUCs)
  7. Afternoon Networking Break
  8. Afternoon Networking Break
    • Why Colorado first turned to tolled lanes
    • Colorado's first-of-its-kind system to address safety and toll evasion issues
    • Messaging with the public on tolled lanes and safety enforcement
    • What EV owners are saying about RUC in Hawaii

    • How public agencies are collaborating for a smooth launch of Hawaii's RUC program

    • How counties can leverage a state-led RUC program to create a sustainable local revenue stream