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Steve Morello Senior Partner State of Oregon’s Per Mile Road Usage Charge 2

Oregon, USA Oregon VA Tenth largest state by land mass Population: 3.8 million USA’s leader in distance charging for trucks and light vehicles 3

Oregon Coast 4

Columbia Gorge 5

Central & Eastern Oregon 6

Portland, Oregon 7

Oregon Per-Mile Road Usage Charge Law Senate Bill 810 directs Oregon DOT to implement a 1.5 cent per-mile road usage charge for 5,000 volunteer light vehicles as an operational program on July 1,

Oregon’s Road Usage Charge Program Well, No. Will Oregon’s Road Usage Charge Program be a government operated, single technology, closed system that will be expensive to operate and extremely difficult to change? Oregon is establishing an open market billing platform for road usage charging. 9

Strategic Objective for Oregon’s Per Mile Road Usage Charge “Create a sustainable road usage charge market that is simple and easy for payers, flexible and encourages evolution of mileage reporting technologies and business systems into effective, affordable, convenient and attractive options for the motoring public.” 10

Organizing Characteristics for Oregon’s Per Mile Charge System Design program with open architecture Technology agnostic Provide motorists choices Interoperable, scalable and geographically unlimited Policy Neutral Provide access to private sector account management 11

Road Usage Charge Transactions 12

Road Usage Charge Account Management Creating a Commercial Market Recruit and choose volunteers All mileage reporting technologies meeting standards Can sell value added services Can sell mileage data with express approval Commercial Account Managers Must accept any volunteer Odometer reporting (no GPS) No value added services Cannot sell mileage data ODOT Account Management 13

Volunteer Entry into Road Usage Charge Program on 1 st July Select provider via ODOT website Or, be recruited by commercial account manager 2. Select mileage reporting method Basic Advanced 3. Activate mileage reporting device Install after-market device in vehicle, or Access telematics within vehicle 4. Drive And receive an automatic fuel tax credit on bill 14

The Future - How Will an Open Market Affect Road Usage Charge Operations? Value Added Services Reduce Cost of Administration Competition Improves Efficiency of Operations Competition Fosters Evolution of Technologies Minimizes Government Footprint Options Provide Comfort to Payers 15

Recent History of Light Vehicle Per-mile Charging in USA The Kitz-o-meter (1996) 15 State Pooled Funds Study (2000) Oregon’s Road User Fee Task Force (2001) Oregon’s First Pilot Program ( ) Nevada Studies ( ) Texas Studies ( ) University of Iowa Field Tests ( ) Minnesota Pilot Program ( ) Washington Steering Committee (2012) Oregon’s Second Pilot Program with Washington and Nevada ( ) Colorado announces pilot program (2014) 16

… and there was legislation Oregon enacts HB 3946 creating the Road User Fee Task Force and mandating a per-mile charge pilot (2001) Washington enacts legislation creating the Road Usage Charge Steering Committee (2012) Oregon enacts SB 810 creating the Road Usage Charge Pilot Program for 5,000 volunteers (2013) California enacts SB 1077 creating the Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee and mandating a per-mile charge pilot (2014) Utah passes legislation to research road usage charge (2015) Florida … is working hard to pass per-mile charge legislation in

… and states working together I-95 Corridor Coalition: 17 states 18 Western Road Usage Charge Consortium: 12 states Arizona California Colorado Idaho Hawaii Montana Nevada Oregon Texas Utah Washington

Recent Press Articles 20 Oregon WA Sate California Texas Oregon Texas Oregon British Columbia U.S.A.

Steve Morello Thank You! 21