Transforming U.S. Transportation Funding Through Tolling and Road Usage Charging

Road Pricing Summit returns to the United States in a brand-new location – Washington, DC – on September 21-22, 2026 with a program built for one overriding reality: the United States is moving from “should we?” to “how do we deliver?”

Timed just days before the federal surface transportation reauthorization deadline, the Summit is designed to help agencies and industry align policy, funding, and delivery decisions for the next cycle. This is not a theory conference. Expect operator-grade sessions on interoperability and customer accounts, enforcement and evasion, back-office modernization, cybersecurity, procurement, and cutover readiness, plus the political fundamentals that determine whether pricing policies survive: equity, trust, and a credible revenue story.

Live case studies and project updates are paired with implementation playbooks, giving agencies and suppliers a shared view of what “ready to scale” looks like in 2026–2028. If you are responsible for funding, policy, delivery, operations, or technology across tolling, ITS, road pricing, or RUC, this is the room where the next 12-18 months gets mapped.

Public sector

State DOTs, toll authorities, and turnpike agencies

City and regional transportation agencies, MPOs, and TMCs

Federal and state policymakers involved in surface transportation reauthorization

Enforcement, finance, customer service, and procurement leads

Private sector

Tolling, ITS, and road pricing technology providers and integrators

Back-office, payments, clearing, and customer account specialists Enforcement, LPR/ANPR, fraud analytics, and cybersecurity providers

Consultancies supporting policy, delivery, communications, and procurement

Policy and ecosystem

Legislators and staff, policy advisors, and associations

Academics, think tanks, and advocacy organizations

Lobbyists and stakeholder engagement specialists

1. A DC briefing that connects reauthorization, grants, and near-term procurement reality
2. What congestion pricing teaches once it’s live: operations, enforcement, and legitimacy
3. The next wave of tolling transformation: AET, modern back offices, and lower cost-to-collect
4. Interoperability 2.0: beyond tags to customer accounts, payments, and clearing
5. Enforcement and compliance that works without blowing up public trust
6. Implementation depth you can use: procurement, migration, testing, and “Day 1” readiness
   

• A shared language for the next phase of US road pricing and user charging: measurable outcomes, not buzzwords
• A practical checklist for scaling programs (technology, governance, operations, procurement, and trust)
• Peer connections with the people actually running systems: operations, enforcement, CX, finance, and cyber
• Clear sponsor-to-buyer alignment: the sessions where budgets, needs, and solutions meet
  

• What to do in the next 6-12 months to position programs and procurements for the post-reauthorization cycle
• How agencies are building pricing and charging systems that are enforceable, auditable, and politically durable
• Which interoperability and customer account models are emerging as the de facto direction of travel
• What the last 90 days before AET or a major system change really looks like – and how to de-risk it
• How to cut dispute rates and contact center load through policy design and customer account engineering
• Where AI and analytics are genuinely improving corridor performance (and where they are not)