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LaHood Urges Bipartisan Support for Infrastructure Investment
Bill CramerJanuary 11, 2018
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The Republican Member of Congress who served as Transportation Secretary in a Democratic President’s cabinet is starting the year with a call for bipartisan action to clear America’s crippling infrastructure deficit. “Messy commutes, dilapidated... Read More
IBTTA Extols Tolls as a Behavior Management Tool on National Radio Show
Bill CramerJanuary 9, 2018
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IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Patrick Jones closed out 2017 with a mid-December appearance on All Things Considered, a nationally-syndicated public affairs program on National Public Radio. What began as a conversation about a $40 peak toll along... Read More
2018: Tim Stewart Takes the Helm
Bill CramerJanuary 4, 2018
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Tim Stewart is the Executive Director and CEO of the E-470 Public Highway Authority, and is beginning his year as IBTTA President after being elected by the IBTTA membership in September 2017. This blog post contains excerpts from Stewart’s recent... Read More
Riding the Wave: 2017 Delivers a Whirlwind of Progress for Tolling, User Finance
Bill CramerJanuary 2, 2018
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Today is where it starts.   IBTTA is surging into the new year, driven by the outstanding momentum the global tolling industry built in 2017. At the international, national, state and local levels and across the spectrum from policy to finance to... Read More
IBTTA Mourns the Passing of Neil Schuster
IBTTADecember 20, 2017
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The tolling and transportation industries lost a beloved, gentle giant with the passing this week of Neil Schuster, IBTTA’s executive director from 1985 to 2001, from a rare genetic heart condition. He was 65. “Neil was a gentleman,” recalls IBTTA... Read More
Leadership Academy Faculty Member Analyses Success of I-66 Toll Lane
IBTTADecember 19, 2017
A good friend of IBTTA is out with a smart, thoughtful analysis of the “very important economic experiment” the Virginia Department of Transportation undertook when it introduced rush hour tolls on Interstate 66, inside the Washington, DC Beltway.... Read More
Stocchi Traces the Important Role of Public-Private Partnerships
IBTTADecember 14, 2017
The important place of public-private partnerships (P3s) as a tool in the highway funding toolbox was the focus of Emanuela Stocchi’s last public presentation as IBTTA President, to a session earlier today on capacity-building for highway... Read More
Tolling in the Mix as 2018 Federal Infrastructure Plan Takes Shape
IBTTADecember 12, 2017
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With transportation advocates looking to 2018 as the year when infrastructure policy and investment may come to the forefront, the White House has been floating a plan that calls for federal “sweeteners” for state and local governments that raise... Read More
São Paulo’s Ride-Hailing Fee Points to Policy Power of Road Usage Charging
Bill CramerDecember 7, 2017
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‘Remarkable Feat’ Shows Success of Maryland’s All-Electronic Intercounty Connector
Bill CramerDecember 5, 2017
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The Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Automobile Association recognized yet another example of a successful all-electronic tolling project, with a report late last month on Maryland’s Intercounty Connector (ICC). Critics might once have written it... Read More

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