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Bill CramerMay 11, 2017
Cynthia Essenmacher arrived four months ago as Tolling Program Manager at the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Center for Innovative Finance Support, after more than a decade working at FHWA and, before that, the Maryland Transportation...
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Bill CramerMay 9, 2017
With federal and state funding capacity falling short, at least one major player on the U.S. infrastructure finance scene is pointing to toll roads as a way to pay for much of the surface transportation the country needs.
Moody’s Investors Service,...
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Bill CramerMay 4, 2017
Any salesperson knows they’ve made a significant advance with a prospective customer when the conversation shifts from “if” to “how”.
It’s the moment when the prospect stops thinking about whether they’re going to buy and starts working out when to...
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Maintenance and Roadway Operations Workshop Highlights New Asset Management Techniques, Technologies
Bill CramerMay 3, 2017
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Bill CramerApril 27, 2017
IBTTA members have known for a very long time that the more familiar people are with modern tolling systems, the more likely they are to like them.
Now, in a suburb of Greater Vancouver, at least one mayor is adding his voice to a debate that has...
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Bill CramerApril 25, 2017
“Want America to Be ‘Great’ Again? Pay For It.”
That was the picture-perfect headline that TIME magazine, one of America’s most venerable and influential print publications, attached to the op ed it published last week by IBTTA Executive Director...
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Bill CramerApril 20, 2017
What does it say about a country’s approach to highway and other infrastructure investment if we’re constantly fighting a war, rather than winning the peace?
And how much better can we prevail against a very tough enemy—in this case, the inevitable...
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Bill CramerApril 18, 2017
A rural stretch of I 85, from Georgia to the edge of Alabama, is being turned into a test bed and a working model for a road that every user, operator, entrepreneur, and environmentalist can fall in love with.
That’s the goal of The Ray, a project...
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Bill CramerApril 13, 2017
Safety, resiliency, and innovation will be the watchwords May 21-23 when IBTTA convenes its annual Maintenance and Roadway Operations Workshop in New Orleans.
The meeting features a technical tour of the city’s post-Hurricane Katrina storm surge...
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Bill CramerApril 11, 2017
The gracefully flowing archway and rays of sunlight on the report cover say it all: there are challenges on the immediate horizon, but the “futures of transportation” that senior industry executives explored at IBTTA’s Transportation Visioning...
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