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Bill CramerJanuary 8, 2015
At the California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop last fall, IBTTA caught up with two leading advocates for road user charging (RUC) as a promising highway financing option.
“Our vision for paying for the highway system in the long...
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Bill CramerJanuary 6, 2015
The Illinois Tollway is getting high marks for its decision to bring its call center contract back to the state—and to locate it at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where half of the 244 jobs go to people who are either blind or veterans.
The...
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Bill CramerDecember 22, 2014
In the age of highway megaprojects, tolling agencies run the risk that customers will react to the noise and inconvenience during construction of a billion-dollar piece of infrastructure.
So it’s great to see the Central Texas Regional Mobility...
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Bill CramerDecember 18, 2014
This is how you tell the story of a successful tolling project.
Melbourne, Australia-based Transurban Group is out with a fantastic infographic—the file name calls it wall art—that tells the story of the 95 Express Lanes, the congestion relief...
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Bill CramerDecember 15, 2014
National legislators got a first-hand look at the future of highway transportation last Wednesday when the Commonwealth of Virginia cut the ribbon on the 29-mile 95 Express Lanes project.
The lanes follow a 29-mile route along I-95 and I-395 between...
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Bill CramerDecember 11, 2014
In a report this week, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) put a sobering number to a problem that IBTTA has been working hard to help solve.
In its 2015 Bottom Line Report, a joint publication with the...
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Guest Post: By Rich Bastan, Vice President, Xerox State & Local Solutions, Inc. November 18, 2014
While tolling technology has evolved over the last 20 years, and regional standards have involved for interoperability, there is not a national standard. Because of this, there is a federal mandate in place for national toll interoperability by 2016...
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Bill CramerNovember 14, 2014
With less momentum toward a long-term highway transportation bill, the results of U.S. mid-term elections last week reinforce the trend toward state initiatives funded by private capital, infrastructure analyst Ken Orski argued in the November 8...
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Bill CramerNovember 7, 2014
On November 4, a number of transportation funding initiatives appeared on state and local ballots. Clearly, state and local governments are looking for ways to fund their infrastructure needs.
In Maryland and Wisconsin, voters amended their state...
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Bill CramerNovember 4, 2014
With the U.S. Congress and the White House set to begin sorting out their dynamics and priorities after today’s elections, the timing may have been just right for President Barack Obama to officially proclaim November 2014 as Critical Infrastructure...
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