Would you prefer to pay an annual "per kilometre" charge to government for driving on a road and then receive a discount on petrol and registration?

Road-user charging is being trialled in 11 states in US. and is now under consideration in Australia.

Australia looks closely at an Oregon road pricing scheme as one option to raise money for road and transport projects.

That future "road-user" charge gets spent on road and infrastructure charges, rather than continuing the debate of how little petrol excise duty goes to road projects.

The concept, which has grabbed the attention of Infrastructure Australia as it launches its Australian Infrastructure Plan, comes from Oregon and is called Orego.