icon: Research and Planning Stage
icon: Setup Stage
icon: Ongoing Operations
icon: Transitioning and Growing Stage

Stage 1: Research and Planning

Most road pricing projects and programs progress through four distinct stages. Within each stage, building blocks are key components of building and making RUC policies and systems. Each stage also involves a number of different specific activities, into which the building blocks are organized in the table below. Explore the stage components by clicking building blocks you’d like to learn more about. A description of the stages, activities, and building blocks can be found here.

Activities Building Blocks
Research Policy and Politics (1) Determine Vision and Policy Objectives for RUC
(2) Creation and Convening of Task Force
(3) Road Usage Charge Legal Analysis
(4) Distributional Impacts Analysis
(5) Privacy Protection
(6) Public Opinion Research
(7) Economic Forecasts
(8) Revenue Modeling
Stakeholder and Public Engagement (9) Develop and Execute Communication Plan and Collateral
Study Organizational Structure and Readiness (10) Determine Authorizing Strategy for Road Usage Charge
(11) Functional Analysis of Existing State Agencies’ Organizations
Demonstrate Possible Approaches  (12) Analysis and Prioritization of Mileage Reporting Methods
(13) Analysis of Multijurisdictional Approaches
(14) Pilot Design and Development
(15) Pilot Execution
(16) Pilot Evaluation
Support Official Policy and Legislation Development (17) Estimate Cost of Implementation
(18) Support Policy and Legislation Development