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Bill CramerDecember 1, 2015
IBTTA Seeks Presentation Ideas for Transportation Policy & Finance Summit and Maintenance and Roadway Operations Workshop
As IBTTA gears up for a busy 2016, incoming IBTTA President Buddy Croft and Executive Director of the Rhode Island Bridge...
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Bill CramerNovember 25, 2015
As toll road users get ready to hit the road for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we bring you the story of five-year-old Sebastian Vartanian of Newport Coast, California, who came up with his own unique way of giving thanks.
When his birthday...
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Bill CramerNovember 19, 2015
From roadways to boardrooms, demographic change is sweeping the tolling industry, as members of Generations X and Y push their way into the work force and become ever more prominent as toll customers.
While each generation has its own experiences,...
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Bill CramerNovember 10, 2015
There’s a scare story about autonomous vehicles that may be coming soon to a highway near you.
But when you dissect that story, it translates into a powerful argument for a set of technologies that could soon be saving thousands of lives per year on...
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Bill CramerNovember 5, 2015
In a column last month, Washington Post columnist Robert Thomson, a.k.a. Dr. Gridlock, makes a great case for high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes as a 21st-century plan for moving more people without building new highway capacity.
Thomson wrote the...
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Bill CramerNovember 3, 2015
When a tolling agency or any other business is facing a crisis, a bit of common sense and humanity can go a long way.
That was one of the main takeaways when Bruce Hennes and Howard Fencl at Cleveland-based Hennes Communications, delivered a crisis...
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Bill CramerOctober 28, 2015
Every tolling agency is committed to understanding what its customers need and want. But agencies that haven’t yet tapped the power of Big Data are probably getting a far less complete picture of those customers than they otherwise would.
At IBTTA’s...
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Bill CramerOctober 22, 2015
IBTTA’s New Media, Communications and Human Resources Workshop lit up Twitter and Facebook while participants were onsite in Cleveland earlier this week.
From crisis communications, to demystifying Big Data, to welcoming and valuing all four...
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Bill CramerOctober 21, 2015
It’s hard enough to accurately predict future trends when you have good reason to think the recent past will predict the next five, 10, or 20 years.
It’s a lot more challenging when something as simple as a nifty, new adult scooter could do its part...
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October 15, 2015
Guest Blog by Tom Knuckey, IBTTA’s Interoperability Roadside Operations Subcommittee Chair
No matter what state you live in, the practice of highway tolling is essential to supplement revenues for our crumbling transportation infrastructure. There...
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