The Stripe for Tolling -- enabling next-generation road pricing through a unified digital platform for congestion pricing, road usage charging, and tolling.
ClearRoad is a privately held New York road-pricing technology company founded in 2017. It supplies cloud-based systems for road usage charging, tolling, congestion management and oversized or overweight truck permitting. Its platform can obtain distance and location information from connected vehicles, plug-in devices and smartphones, and can exchange transactions with existing billing and accounting systems. ClearRoad has documented project experience in Oregon’s OReGO programme, a 2023 Utah pilot integrating state and local road charges with tolling, Bogotá’s 2022 ParceGO congestion-pricing pilot, and automated truck permitting for Fremont, California. Oregon’s current OReGO partner list, however, names GeoToll and NextMove by Cintra rather than ClearRoad, so ClearRoad should not be described as a current OReGO commercial account manager without further evidence. The company also operates a Tolling API that it says covers 21 US states and counting. New Zealand’s Ministry of Transport received 44 responses to its 2025–26 RFI on future RUC services but did not publicly identify respondents. ClearRoad’s participation therefore remains unverified, and the Ministry says the timing and final arrangements for transitioning the full petrol fleet have not been decided.
Cloud-based RUC platform supporting connected-vehicle data, smartphone tools, open transaction APIs, compliance reporting and integration with existing billing and accounting systems.
Tolling platform using connected-vehicle data and transaction-level back-office integration, including gantryless detection and compliance functions.
API for enrolling vehicles, receiving toll charges and integrating those transactions with customer billing systems. ClearRoad advertises coverage in 21 US states and counting.
Online permitting, route-management and enforcement tools for oversized and overweight trucks, including a deployment for Fremont, California.
Dashboard supporting geographically and temporally variable charging, third-party GPS data, user-account management and policy-design services. Bogotá’s ParceGO pilot is presented as a case study.
Consumer pay-as-you-go toll-payment service presented by ClearRoad as part of its NextGen Tolling offering.
ClearRoad was founded in New York by Frederic Charlier and Paul Salama.
ClearRoad developed an automated oversized and overweight truck-permitting system for Fremont, California.
Andrew Peppard joined as VP of Tolling and Larry Yermack joined the advisory group. Yermack remains listed as an adviser in 2026.
ClearRoad closed a $2.35 million seed round led by Space Capital, with participation from Heroic Ventures, Uber Alumni Syndicate, Hunt Technology Ventures and DVC.
ClearRoad became a commercial account manager for Oregon’s OReGO road usage charge programme. It is not included on Oregon’s current 2026 partner list.
ClearRoad and Cornell Tech supported Bogotá’s ParceGO smartphone-based congestion-pricing pilot, conducted from April to July 2022.
ClearRoad and ETAN Tolling Technology supported a six-month Utah pilot testing the integration of state RUC, local road charges and tolling.
ClearRoad launched its Tolling API, which currently advertises coverage in 21 US states and counting.
Founder & CEO
ClearRoad’s current website identifies Charlier as its founder and chief executive. He previously worked on Oregon’s mileage-based charging programme through Emovis.
Advisor
Partner at Space Capital, the lead investor in ClearRoad’s 2021 seed round.
Advisor
Former MTA Bridges and Tunnels executive and a founder of the E-ZPass Interagency Group.
ClearRoad develops road usage charging and related road-pricing systems using connected-vehicle, plug-in-device and smartphone data. Its documented experience includes work associated with Oregon’s OReGO programme and a 2023 Utah pilot integrating state RUC, local road charges and tolling. Oregon no longer lists ClearRoad among its current OReGO business partners. ClearRoad has not been publicly identified as a respondent to New Zealand’s 2025–26 RUC services RFI.
ClearRoad partnered with ETAN Tolling Technology and the Utah Department of Transportation to launch a six-month Local Road Usage Charging and Tolling Integration Pilot in summer 2023, funded by a Federal Highway Administration grant. CEO Frederic Charlier described it as 'the first of its kind to unify different forms of road pricing into one.'
ClearRoad secured a $2.35 million seed funding round led by Space Capital, with participation from Heroic Ventures, Uber Alumni Syndicate, and others. The investment supported ClearRoad's platform that charges drivers based on mileage and location rather than fuel consumption.
ClearRoad partnered with Smartcar's connected vehicle API platform to deliver hardware-free road usage charge solutions, eliminating the need for physical plug-in devices by reading odometer data directly from vehicles. The integration supports compatibility with over 100 EV models across 25 brands.
