We’re partnering with University College London to hold a Road User Charging Forum event, marking sixty years since the publication of the Smeed Report. The Smeed Report, led by R.J. Smeed and supported by a team of economists and engineers, was a study that was published into alternative methods of road user charging and commissioned by the UK Government between 1962 and 1964.

This event on the 10 September will take a look back and reflect on 60 years since the Report was published, focusing on some of the major changes involving policy and practice as well as the technological advances and shifting public perceptions around charging for road use. We’ll hear from academia, industry and local authorities before looking at what the future could hold for a national road pricing scheme. Please do register your place as soon as possible, on what promises to be a unique and thought provoking event.

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Agenda

 

13:00   Doors open, lunch served

13.45    Welcome and Introductions

– Max Sugarman, Chief Executive, ITS UK

– Prof Peter Jones, Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development, UCL

– Representative from Jacobs

 

13.55    Introduction

– Zeina Nazer, ITS UK Road User Charging Forum Chair

– Louise Lawrence, ITS UK Road User Charging Forum Vice Chair

 

14:00  60 Years since Smeed – A reflection on road user charging theory, policy and practice then and now

– Prof Emeritus Phil Goodwin, Professor of Transport Policy, UCL and University of West England

– Steven Norris, President, ITS UK & Former Transport Minister

 

14.30   Advances in technology: International Perspective & Experience

– Luke Normington, Senior Vice President, Neology

– Tim Wray, Sales Director, Kapsch

 

15.00    Charging for road use: what do the public think?

– Silviya Barrett, Director of Policy and Research, Campaign for Better Transport

– Jack Knight, Managing Consultant and Thomas Welborn, Managing Consultant, Stonehaven

 

15.30   Q&A with speakers (more time for any questions from all the session above)

 

15.45  Break

16.00    An economist’s perspective

– John Siraut, Chief Economist, Jacobs

 

16.10    Pricing for a service rather than charging for contributing to a problem?

– Prof Peter Jones, Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development, UCL

 

16.20    Prospects for a national scheme?

– Steve Gooding, Director, RAC Foundation

 

16:30   Panel: A national road pricing scheme – Where do we go from here?

– John Siraut, Chief Economist, Jacobs

– Andrew Crudgington, Climate Change Associate, CIHT

– Ben Plowden, Chair of Transport Planning Society

– Steve Gooding, Director, RAC Foundation

– Zeina Nazer, Road User Charging Forum Chair

– Matthew Hills, Transport Strategy and Economics, PwC

 

17.00    Wrap up

– Prof Peter Jones, Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development, UCL

– Zeina Nazer, Chair and Louise Lawrence, Vice Chair, Road User Charging Forum

 

17.15   Close

17.15 – 18.00   Drinks and Networking

 

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