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Bill CramerJuly 27, 2017
It may be a while before the slogan shows up on a collection of white-on-red caps, but Make American Infrastructure Great Again was the audacious goal that Cal State, Northridge economics professor Robert Krol put forward last month, in a column for...
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Bill CramerJuly 25, 2017
Fran O’Connor, Vice President and National Tolls Director at Atkins N.A., and Mary Sallach, Director of Integrated Program Delivery at Georgia’s State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA), are Co-Chief Meeting Organizers for IBTTA’s 85th Annual...
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Bill CramerJuly 20, 2017
Get ready for an amazing venue of technological innovations and customer service advances driving the global tolling industry when you attend IBTTA’s 85th Annual Conference and Exhibition, September 10-12, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia.
“Throughout 2017...
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Bill CramerJuly 18, 2017
When demand for a service is on the rise, but funds to pay for that service are declining, you know things aren’t going to end well unless a practical, widely accepted alternative falls into place.
That’s the storyline that falls out of the latest...
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Bill CramerJuly 13, 2017
A decision by the city of Jakarta, Indonesia to eliminate a car-pooling requirement for vehicles entering its central business district at rush hour inadvertently showed how effective HOV policies can be at relieving traffic congestion.
A recent...
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Bill CramerJuly 11, 2017
The state of Oregon is considering tolling as one of a series of measures to begin drawing down a stubborn infrastructure deficit.
But that’s just the second-most exciting feature of the $5.3-billion funding package that passed both houses of the...
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Bill CramerJuly 5, 2017
Casey Emoto is Deputy Director at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) and Co-Chair of the U.S. Transportation Research Board Committee on Managed Lanes. Richard “Trey” Baker is a managed lanes consultant with WSP USA and Chair of...
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Bill CramerJune 27, 2017
When you have a trillion-dollar infrastructure funding gap to clear, every funding option should be considered.
IBTTA has long taken the position that no single funding or financing mechanism is right for every road, bridge or tunnel and every...
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Bill CramerJune 22, 2017
With members of the U.S. Congress working on bipartisan legislation on connected and autonomous vehicles, an industry news site is predicting a major increase in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology by 2022—with the fifth-generation (5G) wireless...
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Bill CramerJune 20, 2017
Can a tolling agency in the midst of a major construction project be a standard-bearer for environmental quality and habitat protection in the area where the work is going on?
In an era when environment and quality of life are often pre-eminent...
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