TIC 2018-11-13 Item 3F - SCATBd - 9/18/18 Meeting Summary / 10/16/18 Meeting Agenda

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Pilot program: Mileage reporting options include a mileage permit (log), odometer reading, application with smartphone, plug in device with GPS, and a plug in device without GPS. Pilot participants — 30% odometer reading; 34% plug in device with GPS and 15% chose smartphone application. Only 1% chose the mileage permit. Pilot uses private sector provider to do the billing and technical work (DrivesNY or eMovis). Private companies collecting driving information may not be desirable to consumers. Pilot produces drivers scoring on breaking, cornering and driving behavior. 2,000 people participating that reflect the state's distribution of drivers: 78% use gas vehicles, 8% use hybrid, and 4% use electric vehicles. Questions: Notion is that you will pay either one or another system, not both. You would get a refund for or a credit. That is happening at an automated basis in the pilot. Q: Age demographic? Yes. Can send that information out. Q: How can you determine how much will be shared with local jurisdictions? Legislature could set forth a distribution as they do now with the gas tax. Some cities are asking that the actual miles traveled is used by jurisdiction vs. an allocation. Q: In-between state travel, we may be able to do something as we do with ORCA — putting the burden on the agencies or state vs. the consumer to distribute the allocation issue. Our state constitution has the 18th amendment — couldn't use gas tax dollars for anything except roads. This is an opportunity to revisit this. Parking lot for all of these issues ultimately local funding distributions will be addressed. Ultimately that is a political fight. Q: Will this system include congestion pricing? And is this socially just / equitably just? On the pricing pilot is not looking at pricing mechanism. Depends on if legislature wants to enable equitable pricing — they could. RUC is not a congestion pricing tool — not a tolling tool but legislature could make that work on certain corridors but only would work if everyone is using a GPS enabled system so we can capture where you are driving. (PSRC): Transportation Futures work did value equity pricing was a high priority for those that participants. We heard that loud and clear. Q: Privacy issues. Be careful of the technology side — insurance company gets info on driving behavior and then increases rates. We recognize that there are a lot of privacy issues associated with data. There are safeguards on other large data sources like ORCA data for example. Q: Thank you for presentation. Change is hard for the public, certain members. Public perception issue of being tracked. Is anyone collecting data on being tracked? Smoothness of this implementation will be based on the public's willingness to be tracked. Looming, legal fight as the larger discussion is ongoing about government's role as to how much data should be collected / protections. Q: WA second largest gas tax in the nation. Last year's survey showed that 58% surved didn't want it. And 59% said govn't didn't do a good job with transportation. 2,000 RUC participants will take three surveys as part of the process. At the end we will go out with another statewide survey. The initial survey was used as a baseline. Q: Goal of finding a new way to collect revenue for roads seems to be in conflict with another larger goal to get people to drive less. How would this be sustainable in the long run if people get out of their cars, and stop driving? No huge shifts in rural areas but shifts in urban areas with autonomous vehicles and other transit shifts. Future transportation paradigms would have to involve to a fleet taxation system vs. an individual system. 40