WSP is leading the seven-month California Road Charge Public/Private Roads Pilot. For this study, up to 500 participants will demonstrate how a per-mile road charge could be accurately reported and assessed while delineating between public and private roads, across California’s vast rural communities and throughout the 109 federally recognized tribal nations. This demonstration will support better understanding of how per-mile charging will affect communities that have not been previously engaged with other road charge efforts.
Additionally, the pilot will test how road charge can integrate with tolling backoffice systems. As part of this demonstration, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is partnering with Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) to demonstrate how road charge data and systems can integrate with TCA’s FasTrack tolling system. TCA will provide 50 participants, recruited from its existing customer base, to support the Public/Private Roads Pilot.
WSP is leading many facets of this demonstration, including program management, communications strategy and development, technical design, policy research, demonstration testing, pilot operations, and reporting. WSP also is developing a road charge account management platform that will serve as the technical platform for data collection, transaction processing, reporting and mock invoicing.
The demonstration launched in March 2023 with final results anticipated in 2024.
