Twitter Tells the Story as IBTTA’s All-Electronic Tolling Summit Convenes in Boston
IBTTA’s 2016 Summit on All-Electronic Tolling, Managed Lanes, and Interoperability last week was a cascade of new knowledge and data, information and networking. And conference participants were ready to tell the story, using Twitter to capture the high points as they happened.
Top tolling communicators like Jennifer Szambecki of the Kansas Turnpike Authority, Aaron Hake of the Riverside County Transportation Commission, and Tyler Milligan of Milligan Partners were among the most avid tweeters. Hake picked up IBTTA President Buddy Croft’s observation that “we need to paint picture of who we are & what we do or others will do it for us. Lesson for #transportation & life.”
Milligan captured former NHTSA administrator David Strickland’s observation that 94% of all crashes have an element of human error, and that autonomous vehicles “offer an opportunity for independent mobility for groups such as the blind and elderly.” Milligan and Szambecki were both taken with Rhode Island’s report that it was saving nearly $1 billion by accelerating its bridge reconstruction program, while going “from 50th in bridges [among U.S. states] to major improvements” in just 18 months.
Twitter is also great for capturing the lighter side of an event. “We in tolling call national interoperability ‘NIOP’, pronounced ‘nigh-op’, because—let's be honest—it sounds cooler,” Szambecki tweeted. Hake couldn’t resist a session slide that showed the Devil speaking to a new recruit. “I need someone well versed in the art of torture,” he said. “Do you know PowerPoint?”
Read on for a full Twitter account of IBTTA’s 2016 Summit on All-Electronic Tolling, Managed Lanes, and Interoperability. And if you missed this year’s event, it isn’t too late to start planning to attend the 2017 Summit!