Free-flowing road user charging - for the best experience, remove those pesky road barriers. Have us take your money painlessly and electronically while you enjoy your driving day.

Love it or hate it, road user charging (RUC) is a thing. From a consumer's point of view RUC works best when driving a car on the road is just one of several options. You can avoid the RUC by avoiding the tollway and spending longer in traffic, or buying a ticket for a bus or train, or cycling or walking to your destination. RUC works best when the consumer can see that the money they are paying is going into new transport related infrastructure projects that benefit society. RUC is a nasty, pernicious tax when there are no alternatives and all the money disappears into a private corporation that announces huge profits and pays its CEO millions every year.

RUC is good idea because the private car is changing in a fundamental way. Cars that use petrol and diesel pay for roads through the tax on fossil fuels. Electric cars do not contribute in that way. They are effectively getting a free ride. As the number of electric cars increase as a proportion of all cars (and we hope it does), the tax burden falls on a diminishing cadre of vehicles. So RUC will be necessary to make this tax situation equitable. Countries are already introducing schemes to make that a reality.