Tolling Points
Bill CramerMarch 24, 2020
If the coronavirus pandemic has done one thing, it has brought human societies around the world crashing back to basics. For the IBTTA family, those basics come down to community, connectivity, communication, and caring.
In normal times, we are...
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Samuel Johnson, President, IBTTA and Pat Jones, Executive Director and CEO, IBTTAMarch 17, 2020
With the coronavirus pandemic spreading rapidly across the United States and around the world, tolling agencies are among the many public services on the front line of the all-out effort to slow the spread and #FlattenTheCurve.
You won’t usually...
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Bill CramerMarch 3, 2020
An available right of way, the allure of an all-weather highway, the urgent need for job creation during the Great Depression, and the need to move troops and equipment quickly across a large, sprawling state were some of the biggest motivations for...
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Bill CramerFebruary 25, 2020
When you attend IBTTA’s 2020 Technology Summit, April 2-4, in San Diego, CA, you’ll get more than just the latest update on the avalanche of emerging technologies and business practices reshaping the transportation sector.
You’ll be a part of a...
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Bill CramerFebruary 18, 2020
The Republican Ranking Member on the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is looking to vehicle miles tax/traveled to raise $1 trillion for highway, bridge, and other infrastructure repairs.
Sam Graves (R-MO) “floated the vehicle...
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Bill CramerFebruary 11, 2020
It took two years of negotiations and an array of innovative financing mechanisms. But late last year, Louisiana finally declared victory on its first-ever public-private partnership (P3) for transportation infrastructure, a $162-million tolled...
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Bill CramerFebruary 5, 2020
IBTTA Second Vice President Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation, stressed the bedrock importance of the nation’s surface transportation network and compared highways to the other utilities Americans...
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J. J. EdenJanuary 28, 2020
Guest Blog by JJ Eden, Executive Director of the North Carolina Turnpike Authority and IBTTA Board Member.
Republished with permission by JJ Eden. Originally appeared in Traffic Technology Today.
In almost any discussion about the tolling industry...
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Bill CramerJanuary 23, 2020
Average Household Pays Only $23 Per Month in Gas Taxes
The average American household pays just under $23 per month in gas taxes for the roadways it depends on every day, compared to $66 for broadband Internet, $70 for water, $98 for mobile phone...
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Bill CramerJanuary 14, 2020
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao closed out the year and the decade on a high note, with a mid-December statement that shone a light on two of the main benefits of new tolled capacity in North Carolina—their economic impact,...
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