EFC for NRA’s
J.W. Tierolf
-RWS
-Stockholm Group
Overview
Stockholm Group
CESARE III
EC Committees
EC Workprogramme
Issues for NRA’s
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Stockholm Group
Established February 2002, because of
isolated national initiatives in DE, AU, NL
and plans in UK
Members: MoTs, Tax Offices, NRAs from
AU, CH, DE, FIN, NL, SE, Slov, UK
Aim: find ways and take action to
promote interoperability of national freeflow systems, starting with HGV
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Stockholm Group (2)
Guiding principles
Focus on HGV, but evolving to the future
Practical approach
Haulier perspective
Open market
Activities a.o.:
Analyse issues, e.g. business models
Discuss possible national steps to interoperability
Co-ordinate positions in EU, e.g. in Regulat. Ctee
Advise EC
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CESARE III
Co-operation ASECAP – Stockholm
Group
Start April ’05, for 18 months
Define the European EFC service
MoU’s for contractual interoperability
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CESARE III
Project between ASECAP (PT – ES – FR – IT – NO –
SLO - EL – HR – HU) and the Stockholm group (UK –
NL – DE – SV – FI – CH – AT – SLO)
Follow-up of CESARE I and II
Cesare II has provided important results for
cooperation between road concessionnaires levying
tolls
Results applied in PISTA inside ES and between ES
and FR
CESARE III aims to adapt CESARE II to the needs of
the Stockholm group organizations
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CESARE III
Structure of the project :
WP 1and 2 : revise business model and provide
service definition (CH, AS)
WP 3 and 4 : organisational arrangements and
documents for contractual interoperability
between operators of all kinds (DE/UK, NL)
WP 5 : procedural interoperability (AS)
WP 6 : liaison with external bodies like the Comité
Télépéage (AS)
Duration 18 months
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EC Interoperability
Directive 2004/52
Committees
Workprogramme
Expert Groups
Projects
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EC Committees
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EC Committees
Comité Télepéage (Regulatory Committee)
Formal ctee of MS
EFC Expert Group
Discussion Forum
Expert Group 0
Management Advice
Road Platform
Industry Forum
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COMITE TELEPEAGE
Regulatory Committee limited to the 25 EU
Member States
Formal votes on EC proposals (NICE key)
If outcome is positive it’s directive
If outcome is negative EU Council will decide
EFC Expert Group : 25 MS + candidate
countries (HR – RO – BG – TR) + EFTA
countries (NO – CH – Iceland) + associations
(ASECAP – IRU – IRF – ACEA)
Discusses EC proposals and advises whether to
send them to the Regulatory Ctee for voting or not
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ROAD PLATFORM
The link with the private sector is the
ROAD PLATFORM
launched by the road operators association
ASECAP and supported by the EC DG
TREN
Already 6 meetings
Each of them on a specific topic
Registration free at [email protected]
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ROAD PLATFORM
Open platform
informal structure
gathers road operators, service
operators, car manufacturers,
equipment providers and the EC
aims to discuss specific ITS issues and
eventually launch joint actions
managed by ASECAP and EC jointly
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3. WORK PROGRAM
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Work ProgrammeOrganisation
Expert groups/Working Groups
Study and report on Issues
Projects
CESARE III
RCI
…?
Results of EGs and projects are turned into
proposals by the EC and send to committees
for discussion and vote.
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Work Program
Working Groups already launched :
1. DSRC technologies led by Jesper Engdahl (RAPP AG)
2. Classification of vehicles led by Ken Perrett
3. enforcement of offenses led by Jean Mesqui (ASFA)
4. certification centers (to be defined, led by Fransisco
Soriano - LISITT)
5. GNSS/CN technologies for EFC led by Wolfgang Beier (Toll
Collect)
6. integration of OBU in vehicles to be defined, led by Mike
Hollingsworth ACEA
7. the role of the financial institutions in the system,
…
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Work Program
RCI
Project for demonstration under the frame of the
6th RTD FP
Launched spring 2005 for 36 months
Led by ERTICO and involves most of motorway
and toll operators in Europe
Demonstration of transactions by DSRC as well as
GNSS / CN with the same onboard unit
Call for tenders to choose an electronic integrator
for the OBU
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ISSUES
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Outstanding Issues
Interoperability
Business case for interoperability
Commercially viable cross-border enforcement
Enforcement for all roads, all vehicles: possibly
new concepts are required
VAT, and tax office – private company relations
Enforcement
New Enforcement concepts for all roads, all
vehicles required
Random spot checking?
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Issues for extension to all
roads, all vehicles
All roads
Different enforcement required (no gantries
possible)
Dig map maintenance complex
GPS reception in built up areas inaccurate
Private Cars
Different enforcement required (no company
checks possible; orders of magnitude bigger scale)
Trip bookings via internet or kiosk no option
Installation time OBU (~4 hours) too much
Cost of OBU still high
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NRA Issues
Roles
Policy goals
Types of Tolling services
Aspects
EU issues
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NRA Issues - Roles
Depending on the role re. EFC, more or
less issues will be important for NRAs
ROLES
Policy advisor – broadest orientation
Operator – broad orientation
Contracting – broad orientation
None – still traffic- and legal issues
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NRA Issues – Policy Goals
Financing
Environmental
Demand Management
Modal shift
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NRA Issues - Types of EFC
Location charging
Distance charging
Area charging
Congestion charging
Quality charging
HGV only, or all vehicles
Fee or Tax
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NRA Issues – Aspects of EFC
Organisation
Public, Private, PPP
Contracting
“you’ll get sued”  delays
Need real interim checks
Traffic effects
Rerouting (Regional/Local roads, loss of revenu for
private operators)
Technology
EU requirements
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How to continue ?
Participate in existing bodies ?
If you represent your country
Participate in Projects – RCI, etc ?
Co-op with ASECAP ?
Have liaison with CESARE III ?
Define own needs and present to EC ?
DISCUSSION
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