Tolling Points - By all
Bill CramerJanuary 14, 2016
A recent Atlantic CityLab post by transportation specialist Eric Jaffe shows that, when it comes to congestion on America’s highway, the search for solutions is getting real.
Just before the New Year, Jaffe wrote about a Silicon Valley mobility...
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Bill CramerJanuary 12, 2016
With just two months remaining before IBTTA members meet in Washington, DC for the association’s 2016 Transportation Policy and Finance Summit, a crucial theme already leaps off the pages of the preliminary conference program:
When it comes to the...
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Bill CramerJanuary 7, 2016
In a year-end column on The Huffington Post, IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Patrick Jones points out that the United States is moving farther from a bedrock principle for highway funding: If you use it, you pay for it.
As federal legislators...
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Bill CramerJanuary 5, 2016
People, Partnerships and Progress is the theme that Earl J. “Buddy” Croft III, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA), brings to his term as IBTTA’s 2016 President.
In a statement this week, Croft pointed to the...
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Bill CramerDecember 17, 2015
2015 was an incredibly busy year in the tolling industry, with process and progress toward making the nation interoperable, to the passage of a five-year transportation bill in the United States, to a constant torrent of policy and technology...
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Bill CramerDecember 15, 2015
The idea of using super-durable roadway surfaces to generate electricity has literally hit the Fast Lane, with coverage this week in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s blog.
Solar “(FREAKIN’)” Roadways, the brainchild of Julie and Scott Brusaw...
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Bill CramerDecember 10, 2015
With the United States deadline for national toll interoperability coming up in 2016, the topic is already starting to generate media attention, with IBTTA making the case for a smooth, gradual transition.
The topic got some attention last month in...
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Bill CramerDecember 8, 2015
A growing trend toward time-of-day pricing for city parking is raising some familiar arguments for the tolling community, and demonstrating what motorists stand to gain if transportation providers of all kinds can get their pricing right.
The...
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Bill CramerDecember 4, 2015
Permission for states to consider tolling existing Interstate highways for purposes of their reconstruction and rehabilitation is one of the breakthrough provisions in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, a five-year, $305-billion...
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Bill CramerDecember 3, 2015
Guest blog by Mitchell Beer
PARIS - With delegates from 150 countries attending the United Nations climate change summit November 30 - December 11, there might never be a better moment to position tolling as part of the solution to one of world’s...
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