Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Australia pursues road user charging... again...

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There has been a lot of coverage in Australian media of the idea of a national road user charge (RUC) being applied to electric vehicles (EV...
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Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Dubai converts Salik from an urban toll to a congestion charge

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On 1 July 2007 Dubai was an early implementer of what might  have been seen as urban corridor road pricing, if it had applied pricing based ...
Thursday, 7 August 2025

New Zealand's next steps to road user charging for all vehicles UPDATED

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I've written twice before ( here and here) about the policy announcement from the New Zealand (NZ) Government around introducing road ...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

New York's Lower Manhattan toll has reduced congestion

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New York's congestion charge is of course ground-breaking in the United States as the first application of congestion pricing to all lan...
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Hawaii launches the fourth light RUC programme in the United States, with much more to come

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Phase 1 1 July saw the launch of the fourth US state (following Oregon, Utah and Virginia) to implement an operational RUC system for light ...
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

US Federal Highways Administration terminates agreement authorising New York congestion charge

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On 20 February 2025 the Executive Director of the US Federal Highways Administration wrote to the Commissioners of the New York State and Ci...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Iceland confirms it will be the first country to fully replace fuel tax with distance based road user charges

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Early last year I wrote about how Iceland was the first country ever to mandate a distance-based road user charge for electric vehicles and...
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Denmark successfully introduces RUC for heavy trucks, Netherlands will be next

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To little fanfare, on the 1st of January it was mandatory for trucks operating on national highways and some municipal roads, in Denmark, wi...
Monday, 10 February 2025

Australia and road user charging

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It's pleasing to see Australian Federal Treasurer, Hon. Dr Jim Chalmers, be upfront about the need for Australia to introduce a road us...