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On U.S. Roads, Traffic Congestion Solutions Get Real
Bill CramerJanuary 14, 2016
Stories
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... Read More
Transportation Funding: What’s Local is National. What’s National is Local.
Bill CramerJanuary 12, 2016
Stories
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... Read More
Pay for What You Use: A Bedrock Principle for Highway Funding
Bill CramerJanuary 7, 2016
Stories
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... Read More
IBTTA President Croft Stresses People, Partnerships and Progress
Bill CramerJanuary 5, 2016
Stories
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... Read More
IBTTA’s Top Ten Blog Posts for 2015: Transportation Idol, Visualizing Tolling, and How to Tell the Story
Bill CramerDecember 17, 2015
Stories
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... Read More
Are Solar Roadways in Our Future?
Bill CramerDecember 15, 2015
Stories
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... Read More
Gradual Transition Will Make Toll Interoperability More Affordable
Bill CramerDecember 10, 2015
Stories
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... Read More
Surge Pricing for City Parking Holds a Lesson for Tolling
Bill CramerDecember 8, 2015
Stories
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... Read More
A Five-Year Highway Bill Includes Modest Step to Expand Tolling
Bill CramerDecember 4, 2015
Stories
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... Read More
With Climate Change on the Agenda, Tolling Can Make a Difference
Bill CramerDecember 3, 2015
Stories
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... Read More

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