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With the United States deadline for national toll interoperability coming up in 2016, the topic is already starting to generate media attention, with IBTTA making the case for a smooth, gradual transition. The topic got some attention last month in... Read More
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A growing trend toward time-of-day pricing for city parking is raising some familiar arguments for the tolling community, and demonstrating what motorists stand to gain if transportation providers of all kinds can get their pricing right. The... Read More
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Permission for states to consider tolling existing Interstate highways for purposes of their reconstruction and rehabilitation is one of the breakthrough provisions in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, a five-year, $305-billion... Read More
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Guest blog by Mitchell Beer PARIS - With delegates from 150 countries attending the United Nations climate change summit November 30 - December 11, there might never be a better moment to position tolling as part of the solution to one of world’s... Read More
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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... Read More
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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... Read More
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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,... Read More
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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... Read More
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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... Read More
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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... Read More

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