Skip to main content

Day 2

Image

Loading

Feasibility test of fleet telematics for road user charging

14 Jun 2022

Lessons learned from previous road user charge demonstrations around the USA have revealed major hurdles including privacy and the security; add-on technology; customer complexity; program administrative costs; and scalability of deployments. For those reasons Minnesota’s most recent demonstration project took a decidedly different approach by enlisting car-share companies using the fleet embedded telematics platform as the basis for fee collections. This approach was taken because this represents a model for new vehicles that may one-day greatly simplify a road user charge fee collection system. This presentation will explore whether:

 

• A fleet-based approach to RUC, using embedded telematics, is accurate and reliable and may reduce administrative overhead and enforcement costs

• Embedded telematics, installed by manufacturers in most of today’s vehicles, could be used to deploy RUC more efficiently and effectively across a range of operations and ownership scenarios

• A dual revenue collection system with RUC alongside the motor fuel tax will be needed for decades