Road User Charging 2010 event to be held over 22 to 23 February

Date: 29/1/2010

The Road User Charging 2010 event will be held in Brussels, Belgium over 22 to 23 February 2010.  It will include information on costs and benefits and lessons learned from nine current schemes in Europe and around the world.

The event will aim to offer new insights on:

• Global initiatives
• Strategic objectives
• Evaluation strategies
• Funding
• Public policy
• Next generation technologies.

The event will discuss how a successful Road User Charging (RUC) scheme is capable of reducing congestion, encouraging economic and transport growth and having a positive impact on climate change.  The following topics will also be addressed:

• An update by the EC on the latest policy proposals and the implications for individual RUC schemes
• The latest developments in European HGV tolling, including examples from the innovative Slovakian scheme
• How to measure and prove the environmental and socio-economic benefits delivered by RUC
• The latest in interoperability, cross-border co-operation and cross-border mobility.

Further information is available at the event website.

HA to consider attending the conference

Key words: European Commission, Environment, Payment, Policy

Source: ERTICO