An integrated approach towards a national distance based road charging system for heavy goods vehicles.

This paper provides an introduction to the Swedish ARENA project that started in February 2006. The project is a co-operation between the industry, the authorities and the academia. Trough joint actions, knowledge and competence will be built up with the overall aim of implementing a distance based road charging scheme for heavy goods vehicles in Sweden. Within the project the concept for the scheme will be developed and critical technical issues will be investigated. The paper will provide an overview of the integrated approach and present the starting point for the concept development, i.e. describe the Swedish situation and its requirements (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E212343.