Join us for a Road User Charging Forum meeting discussing some of the key challenges and opportunities around road user charging, both here in the UK and overseas.

Taking place on 9 October at 12pm, the Road User Charging Forum will look at the topic of ‘Road Pricing: At Home, Abroad and in the Future’, discussing some of the key opportunities and challenges around implementing schemes, both here in the UK and overseas.  

We will hear from New Zealand Transport Minister Hon Chris Bishop, who will give a keynote exploring the steps New Zealand is taking to replace petrol taxes with electronic road user charges. His speech will be followed by presentations covering current innovations in the UK and abroad, including London’s ULEZ, M6 Toll, in Holland, Norway and elsewhere.

In this session we will be hearing the latest from across the UK industry on these schemes as well as some key updates from overseas.  We will then look ahead to what the future could have in store for road pricing, too, demonstrating a new tool being developed by ITS UK and Kainos.

Meeting at the Arup offices in London, on 9th October from 12 noon to 4pm this will no doubt be a very topical session.

Register here

Keynote

Hon Chris Bishop, Minister of Transport, New Zealand Government

Hon Chris Bishop is the Minister of Housing, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Minister of Transport, Associate Minister for Sport and Recreation, Associate Minister of Finance, Leader of the House and he is the MP for Hutt South.

Chris was born and raised in Lower Hutt, Wellington where he lives with his wife and two children. He has a first-class Honours degree in Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington, and was the 2006 Young Wellingtonian of the Year.

Before serving as an MP, Chris worked as a researcher for the National Party in Opposition and was later an advisor to Ministers in the John Key-led Government.

Chris was the National Party Campaign Chair for the 2023 General Election.

Agenda

12:00 Welcome and Lunch

1pm Forum begins

Keynote

Hon Chris Bishop, New Zealand Minister of Transport 

At Home: Road Pricing in the UK 

– Aspirations for free flow tolling and the future of Road User Charging
Michael Whelan, CEO, M6 Toll

– Transport for London ULEZ and Congestion Charge Update
Adam Searle, Chief Technology Officer, Capita

– Bringing people with you: Lessons from stakeholder engagement in Cambridge and London
Jo Field, Founder & Chief Executive, JFG Communications

Abroad: Road Pricing Overseas

– Distance-based truck tolling – delivering the Dutch emission reduction objectives from 2026
Trevor Ellis on behalf of Arup

– Road User Charging with Innovation – a development story
Eddie Broadley, SICE UK

– Tolling in Norway – On the Road to RUC
Luis Miranda, Q-free

In the Future: What lies ahead for road pricing

– A new tool for demonstrating the need for national road pricing
Representatives from ITS UK and Kainos

4pm Event Close