Objectives:
- To inform transport professionals on the latest international develop-ments, experience and expectations with ERP
- To outline the potential benefits and applicability and develop an agenda of practical steps to progress ERP in Australasia.

Who Should Attend:
- National, state and local transport agency staff, including - policy, strategy, operations (road, public transport and rail)
- Non-government transport related organisations - motorist, freight, planning, environment
- Technology equipment and service providers - intelligent transport systems, communications
- Transport consultants Researchers and academics
- Financial institutions - international funding institutions, treasuries, financial institutions

Wednesday 12 April 2000

• Issues with the current system of road user charges
• Congestion pricing versus road pricing
• Different pricing depending on perspective: aggregate cost recovery; reduce traffic demand; as a broader transport policy instrument
• Methods for implementation: vehicle taxation; fuel taxation; regulation of vehicle access and charging; electronic road pricing

• Managing congestion against a background of increasing demand
• Efficient use of infrastructure
• Environmental concerns
• Competing objectives: different transport trip types versus local amenity - freight transport, private transport, public transport, equity issues

Speaker
Colin Jensen, Executive Director, Strategic Policy, Main Roads Brisbane Queensland, Australia abstract

• Current system of charges
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Options for rationalisation
• Equity issues
• Rural versus urban issues
• ERP - privacy concerns
• Cost of administration and operation

Speaker
John Metcalfe, Assistant Director, Australian Automobile Association, Canberra ACT, Australiaabstract

• Social and environmental impacts of increasing car use - global, local scale
• Options for encouraging sustainable transport
• Is public transport the answer?
• Based on the report "Sustainable Transport: Responding to the Challenges" prepared by the Institution of Engineers Australia Sustainable Energy Transport Taskforce (Nov 99)

Speaker
Piers Brogan, Business Sector Manager, PPK Environment & Infrastructure, Sydney NSW, Australia abstract

• Economically optimal road pricing: the benefits
• Theory and practice
• Practical options: congestion pricing and uniform pricing
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Driver perception and impact on benefits
• Effect of implementation costs on net benefits of each option
• Electronic road pricing's advantages
• Overall impact on traffic demand

Speakers
Alternative pricing models – David Bray, Director, Economic and Policy Services, Adelaide South Australia, Australia abstract
Economic policy case – Assoc Professor George Docwra, Department of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia abstract

• The new World Bank Urban Transport Strategy
• Role of road pricing in developing countries
• Bank's perspective on electronic road pricing

Speaker
Edward Dotson, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank, Washington DC, USA abstract

• History of road pricing in Singapore - 1975 to 1990s
• The previous Area Licensing Scheme (ALS) 1975 to 1998 and other demand management measures
• The government White Paper on Land Transport Policy 1995
• creation of Land Transport Authority
• Why change to ERP?
• ERP implementation issues
• Social, environmental and industry impacts
• Impact on public transport
• Future directions

Speakers
Dr Chin Kian Keong, Senior Manager, Public Transport & Road Pricing, Land Transport Authority, Singapore abstract

• The new UK White Paper "A New Deal for Transport - better for everyone"
• the first comprehensive transport policy for 30 years
• Dealing with: integration of transport; education; health; environment; business and industry
• Role of road user charges and ERP
• Implementation: role of local government; marketing; new technologies; overall package of measures; progress to date.

Speaker
Eric Sampson, Research Director, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, London, United Kingdom abstract

• The 1980s ERP trial and outcomes
• Why reconsider ERP?
• Scope of the current ERP trial
• Key issues
• Government timetable

Speaker
John Opiola, Wilbur Smith Associates, Project Manager of ERP Feasibility Study, Hong Kong, for Wilbur Smith and Hyder, 1997 to 2000, Hong Kong abstract

• Denmark's transport policy
• Role of ERP
• ERP Pilot Project
• A distance based road pricing system

Speaker
Jan Kildebogaard, Research Manager, Centre for Traffic and Transport Research, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark abstract

• Asia - Pacific urban challenge
• Developed and developing city transport needs
• Institutional blockages and impact on traffic management
• Unique characteristics of ERP which facilitates implementation
• The potential role of ERP
• Key requirements

Speaker
Philip Sayeg, Director, Policy Appraisal Services Pty Ltd, Brisbane Queensland, Australia abstract

Thursday 13 April 2000

• Travel and environmental trends at local level
• Emerging transport policy in cities
• Promising Options
• Role of travel demand management and ERP
• Funding requirements
• Institutional capacity
• Political will
• Effect of ERP on local competitiveness and livability
• Different constituencies and their perspectives
• Winners and losers
• Impact on public transport
• Promotion of public transport: bus priority etc

Speakers
Peter Rufford, Program Manager. Australian Local Government Association, Canberra ACT, Australia abstract
David Overington, Senior Public Transport Consultant, PPK Environment and Infrastructure, Brisbane Queensland, Australia abstract

• Commissioned research work to determine understanding of the issues and their preferences towards what services should be provided, how they should be paid for and how they should be managed

Speaker
Roger Matthews, Manager Public Transport Development, Auckland City Council abstract

• Role of Standards
• Identifying market needs
• Technology's role in meeting market needs
• Off-the-shelf versus customised solutions
• Integration including links to advance traveller information, smart card versatility
• Contractual issues, system maintenance
• Human resources and training
• Remote area versus urban challenges
• Monitoring, auditing and enforcement

Speakers
Gregory Smith, Transit & Transport Solutions, Motherwell Information Systems, Perth, Western Australia abstract
Des Dent, Engineering Manager, Transcore Australia, Brisbane Queensland, Australia abstract
Dr Owen Mace, Aspect Computing, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia abstract

• Approach to Managing Technological, Economic, Legal and Social Constraints of ERP
• Toll road experience and lessons for ERP

Speaker
Michel Croc, Urban Solutions, Egis Group, France abstract

• Road Pricing of Value Motoring - a look at defining the purpose of your program objectives
• Basic program elements
• Purpose and steps in outlining the purpose of your program
• Public acceptance measures
• Creating a Public Dialog and various PR methodologies.

Speaker
John Opiola, Wilbur Smith Associates, Project Manager of ERP Feasibility Study, Hong Kong, for Wilbur Smith and Hyder, 1997 to 2000, Hong Kong abstract

• Multiple objectives
• Public interest versus return on investment
• Capacity building
• Risk management profile
• Project management and coordination challenges
• Identifying opportunities

Speaker
Professor Phil Charles, Director Centre for Transport Strategy, University of Queensland, Brisbane Queensland, Australia abstract

• ERP creates a new asset of identity and location in real time integration with transit provides very powerful cost reductions for transport provision, integration with parking systems generates further cost reductions and consumer benefits
• ERP systems offer radical means of improving transport planning and person choice information
• Auditability of data content

Speaker
Professor Marcus Wigan, Transport Systems, Napier University, Edinburgh UK and Principal Oxford Systematics, Heidelberg Victoria, Australia abstract

Panel
Barry Moore, National Road Transport Commission, Australia
Professor Ken Ogden, Royal Automobile Club, Victoria, Australia
Jack Opiola, Wilbur Smith Associates, Project Manager of ERP Feasibility Study, Hong Kong, for Wilbur Smith and Hyder, 1997 to 2000, Hong Kong
Andrew Rooney, Transport South Australia
Eric Sampson, Research Director, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, London, United Kingdom