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The agenda for the Road User Charging Conference (RUC), Brussels 2013, has been developed to ensure our delegates get the very latest keynote insight and case studies.

This event attracts the industry's leaders and innovators to speak so that our audience gets the most valuable content possible.

Are you interested in speaking or know someone who would be? Please email Jo Baldock via jo.baldock@akabomedia.co.uk.

Conference Programme

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DAY ONE – TUESDAY 5TH MARCH 2013

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09:30	Registration and Coffee
10:00	Chairperson’s Opening Remarks ITS UK, Keith Mortimer, RUC IG; Chairman Wyeval Consulting, Director UK
10:10	PANEL DISCUSSION: Meeting Future Transport Needs • Increasing pressure to produce innovative and cost effective solutions to congestion • Influencing demand and travel behaviour change • Political willingness to pay for RUC • What progress has been made around the implementation of EETS? • Extending RUC to passenger cars – a sustainable solution? Brisa, Eduardo Costa Ramos, Business Development Manager Portugal ECG – The Association of European Vehicle Logistics, Tom Antonissen, EU Affairs Manager Belgium   The European Federation for Transport and Environment, Nina Renshaw, Deputy Director Belgium
11:00	How to Get the Regulation Right • What is the impact of current and upcoming policies and directives? • What creates fair competition, fair pricing and best service levels? • How do the commercial and legislative aspects of RUC come together? European Commission, Jan Szulczyk, Head of Road Charging, Land Transport, DG MOVE Belgium
11:30	Morning Coffee Break
12:00	CASE STUDY: Road User Charging in Norway •  Lessons from a free-flow system •  Interoperability in Europe •  Future plans Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Terje Moe Gustavsen, Director Norway
12:40	Congestion Charging in Gothenburg – From Theory to Reality • How and why the political decision was made • System design and function • Results after two months full implementation • Coordinated improvements in public transport and bike • Public debate and acceptance City of Gothenburg, Traffic & Public Transport Authority, Anders Roth, Environmental Manager Sweden
13:20	Lunch
14:20	Title to be confirmed Telvent, Senior representative being confirmed
15:00	A Field Trial on Smart Mobility in the Testbed Leuven • Devising an innovative and versatile technological solution that can aid in solving some mobility problems • Overview of the scheme and behavioural experiment to assess human response to a road user charging scheme • Summary of results and next steps Transport & Mobility Leuven, Sven Maerivoet, Senior Researcher, Data Enrichment Group Belgium
15:40	Afternoon Coffee Break
16:10	CASE STUDY: Russia • GLONASS • Technology interoperability • Continued extension of tolling? JSC “Navigation Information Systems”, Alexander Gurko, General Director Russia
16:50	USA – Update on Road Usage Charging and Tolling • Latest policy and deployment developments in road usage charging and tolling • Options for road user charging including DSRC tags, 6C tags, GPS and non-technology options • Update on interoperability of tolling systems D’Artagnan Consulting, Steve Morello, Senior Partner USA
17:30	Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
17:40	Networking Drinks Reception

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DAY TWO - WEDNESDAY, 6TH MARCH 2013

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08:30	Registration and Coffee
09:00	Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
09:10	CASE STUDY: Road Pricing in a Sparsely Inhabited Country - Finland •  Finnish perspective on road charging •  How to motivate road charging without congestion? •  How to motivate HGV tolling without transit traffic? •  Is fairness adequate motive for km-charging? Ministry of Transport and Communications, Tuomo Suvanto, Senior Adviser Finland
09:50	CASE STUDY: Lorry Road Pricing In Denmark - Goals, Scheme Design and Business Model •  What are the political goals for the Danish Lorry Road Pricing programme? •  What will the overall design of the tax be (taxable vehicles, tariffs, road network etc)? •  What business model and processes will be put in place to deliver the service? •  What is the progress and lessons learned so far of the programme and future time line? Danish Ministry of Taxation, Klaus Ø. Jensen, Head of the Danish Lorry Road Pricing Programme Denmark
10:30	Morning Coffee Break
11:00	Road User Charging: an Essential Demand Management Tool • Planning for the longer term • Is RUC primarily an infrastructure funding source or an essential tool in delivering safer, efficient and more sustainable mobility for all users of the strategic road network? ARUP, John Davis, Associate Ireland
11:40	Recent Developments in the Financing of EU Transport Infrastructure • Existing EU funding instruments (European Commission and EIB) • Recent developments (New TEN-T guidelines, Connecting Europe Facility, Project Bonds) • The challenges ahead EIB, Patrick Boeuf, Head of Roads Division, Projects Directorate Luxembourg
12:20	Lunch
13:20	Becoming an EETS Service Provider •  Step by step advice •  The business plan •  The rules and legislation •  The certifications Egis Projects, Pascal Lemonnier, Business Development Manager France
14:00	An On Board Unit Platform for the European Electronic Tolling Service •  Hybrid OBU: DSRC and GNSS approach for the deployment in France in 2013 •  France as a big step towards EETS •  Advantages of this new hybrid OBU in France •  Possible tolling scenarios based on the new hybrid OBU Siemens, Dr Peter Tschulik, Product Management Electronic Tolling Austria
14:40	Afternoon Coffee Break
15:10	Road User Charging – Making it Work in Singapore Road User Charging (RUC) in Singapore was first introduced in 1975, starting with a manual scheme. An electronic version based on a DSRC system replaced this in 1998, and this allowed more flexible pricing schemes. This case study shows the need for RUC and benefits from the more flexible pricing scheme but also the issues associated with it. A next generation RUC system based on GNSS technology is being studied and can potentially deal with some of the issues, but ultimately a RUC scheme can only be part of an overall transport strategy to manage transport needs. Land Transport Authority, Dr Kian-Keong Chin, Group Director Singapore
15:50	How are Public Attitudes to Congestion Charges Formed and How Can They be Influenced? • Results from a survey of 4,500 Europeans in three cities • How attitudes to congestion charging are formed through a combination of self-interest, collective opinion forming, and political frame of thought • The effects of hypothecation of revenues and attitudes to fairness Royal Institute of Technology, Carl J Hamilton, Researcher and Consultant Sweden
16:30	Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
16:40	Close of Conference

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