Many European counties already have road user charging for trucks designed to make longhaul freight vehicles pay for road usage in the country they drive. With the proliferation of electric battery vehicles, governments see decreasing fuel excise income and are looking for
new ways to collect tax for road usage.

In mid 2023, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) deployed Apple Express Mode for our Opal ticketing systems. Express Mode for Apple Pay offers a more seamless experience with the ability to tap on and tap off with an Apple iPhone or watch without having to ‘unlock’ or authenticate it. This upgrade
means most users of Apple devices no longer unlock their device when tapping on and tapping off. By continuing to enhance the customer experience, TfNSW is leveraging technology and partnering with industry leaders, to improve a passenger’s end-to-end journey.

Multimodality entails situational combination of different modes within a trip and encourages higher adoption of sustainable travel. Thus, understanding the multimodal demand mechanism is essential to design strategies, such as successful community need-focused MaaS deployment.
The study will apply the advanced econometric models to examine the demand mechanism of multimodalism.

Electric vehicle sales are booming in Australia, rising 161 per cent in 2023 compared with the previous year. A total of 87,217 electric vehicles were sold around the country in the past 12 months. But the transition to electric vehicles poses a challenge for existing government revenue streams - how you do fairly and equitably tax electric vehicle drivers since they no longer pay fuel excise at the pump? How do you build a resilient, sustainable, and seamlessly integrated road user charging system?

The recently elected New Zealand Government has committed to progressing congestion pricing in Auckland, which would be the most car dependent city in the world to have congestion pricing if it is implemented. This presentation will explain the challenges Auckland has had with transport and congestion over the past 25 years, highlight how New Zealand seemed to bypass the widespread political resistance seen in other countries and explain the main options for congestion pricing in Auckland and the technologies that will support it.