IRPP SPONSORSHIP
Now Accepting Founding Sponsors: Shape the Standards
Join an exclusive, flat-fee cohort of industry leaders - Toll Agencies and Operators, Toll Systems Integrators and Suppliers, and Consultancies - dedicated to reducing onboarding time, standardizing domain expertise, and elevating the entire profession.
The Industry Challenge
"Because there is no standardization of tolling knowledge, unlike in other fields, individuals need to acquire it through tribal knowledge transfer."
— Director of IT and Toll Systems at major toll agency
The road pricing and smart mobility sector is undergoing an unprecedented evolution. As fuel tax revenues decline and distance-based charging transitions from policy to critical infrastructure, our industry faces its ultimate "FinTech moment." Vehicles are becoming digital wallets, and roadside and back-office architectures are growing increasingly complex. Yet, as the technology accelerates, the industry faces a critical bottleneck: Workforce Development.
Public agencies are navigating a "silver tsunami" of retirements, while private integrators and consultancies are locked in a fierce war for specialized talent. Traditional civil engineering and public policy curriculums simply cannot keep pace with the rapid demands of modern electronic tolling and Road Usage Charging (RUC).
A New Foundation for the Individual Professional
The Institute for Road Pricing Professionals (IRPP) was established to solve this exact crisis. Modeled explicitly after world-class professional societies like the Project Management Institute (PMI) and IEEE, IRPP is an individual membership entity dedicated to the career growth, continuous education, and credentialing of the practitioner. We are standardizing the core body of knowledge required to train, evaluate, and scale the modern road pricing workforce.
While IRPP will ultimately be entirely self-sustaining through individual membership dues and examination revenues, we invite a select group of visionary organizations to anchor our launch as Seed-Fund Patrons of the Founding Cohort. By contributing $15,000 annually for a three-year runway, your organization will birth-mark the standards of a brand-new professional discipline.
Built for the Entire Road Pricing Community
Sponsorship is not philanthropy. It is a highly-leveraged investment designed to optimize your talent pipeline, reduce procurement risk and elevate the industry. Sponsorship benefits all key three ecosystem members:
Free from Organizational Capture. One Tier. One Fee. Equal Voice.
The Credential Pathway & Development Roadmap
As a Founding Sponsor, your investment and SMEAG representative will directly develop the Foundational IRPP credential, which establishes the baseline competency for the domain. This is set to launch in Q1 2027. Through the remainder of 2027, the SMEAG will inform and approve specialized badges: RPP-AVI (Roadside Systems & Edge AI), RPP-BOS (Back-Office Systems & Automation), and RPP-PPL (Policy, Dynamic Pricing & Predictive Modeling). Advanced data analytics and AI architectures are natively embedded across all technical streams.