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Senate Committee to Vote Tomorrow on Highway Reauthorization Bill
Bill Cramer, IBTTAMay 25, 2021
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Capitol Hill is gearing up for a momentous week on surface transportation, with the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee planning a vote tomorrow on the bipartisan Reauthorization bill it released this past Saturday. In the House,... Read More
Member Survey Lays Out the Future of Tolling
Bill Cramer, IBTTAMay 18, 2021
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An interview with Pat Jones, Executive Director and CEO, IBTTA The global tolling industry is poised to build out from a strong foundation of success and embrace an immediate future that is more reliant on mobile technologies and brings a far... Read More
Why Tolling Analysts Are Embracing Automation
Nina Lews, Atkins N.A.May 11, 2021
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Following last week’s IBTTA’s Technology Summit, Nina Lewis, Tolls Analyst with Atkins writes a guest blog on automation in tolling. Tolling analysts dig through vast amounts of data to find proverbial needles in haystacks when they are trying to... Read More
Electronic Tolling is on Track for High growth. Is Your System Ready?
Guest blog by Ricardo Almeida, Accenture Tolling Center of Excellence Lead May 4, 2021
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Around the world, transportation agencies are focused on advancing old infrastructure to accommodate new uses, such as autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, and charging stations. IBTTA recently reported on the $2.6 trillion infrastructure funding... Read More
The Four Keys to Ensuring Continuity of Operations During a Cyberattack
Guest blog by Robert Todd, Atkins N.A., SNC-LavalinApril 27, 2021
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SolarWinds, Microsoft and FireEye are large organizations with extremely well-developed cybersecurity programs in place, yet a group of Russian attackers executed a successful cyberattack that impacted each of them. Another group of attackers,... Read More
Getting Comfortable with Congestion Pricing
Guest blog by John Horner, Kapsch TrafficComApril 20, 2021
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Congestion charging is an increasingly popular topic in cities wrestling with traffic congestion. Congestion pricing means charging fees for road use in order to reduce demand. Some cities have defined a cordon around the city center, which when... Read More
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Holds Hearing on Highway Trust Fund Solvency and Revenue Alternatives
Mark Muriello, IBTTAApril 16, 2021
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On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a substantive and engaging hearing to begin a discussion about revenue alternatives for the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.  Five individuals were... Read More
Truck Traffic During Pandemic Showed Communities Pulling Together
Bill Cramer, IBTTAApril 13, 2021
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In the early days of COVID-19, the main storyline was that everyone was locked down in the face of a global health emergency, and we were all in this together. A year into the pandemic, a finer-grained picture is coming into view. Yes, we’re (still... Read More
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan Needs a Full Toolbox of Funding Options
Bill CramerApril 6, 2021
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Nearly a week after U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Pittsburgh, PA to unveil his American Jobs Plan, one conclusion is crystal clear—love it or hate it, this is an infrastructure program like none other in a generation or more. One of its... Read More
New York State Thruway Authority Statewide All-Electronic Tolling Conversion
Guest blog: Chris Body, Kapsch TrafficComMarch 30, 2021
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In 2019, New York State prioritized going “cashless” for the New York State Thruway and other major highway systems in the state in an effort to reduce pollution and congestion and mandated that the AET conversion must be done by the end of 2020.... Read More

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