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Tolling and the New Psychology of Highway Funding: Part 1
Patrick JonesMarch 17, 2016
Stories
In the first of a two-part series, IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Pat Jones shares some of his most important takeaways from the association’s 2016 Transportation Policy and Finance Summit, March 13-15, 2016 in Washington, DC. While the summit was... Read More
How Tolling Will Enable Driverless Cars
Bill CramerMarch 15, 2016
Stories
It’s a natural part of the product development life cycle. At some point, just as the buzz around an exciting, highly visible new innovation hits a crescendo, people begin to spot complications along the road to success. They’re complications, not... Read More
A Data-Driven Operation: IBTTA Welcomes Cindy Norcross
Bill CramerMarch 8, 2016
Stories
Effective use of data and analytics has become a cornerstone of 21st-century tolling operations, from the real-time statistics that guide dynamic pricing to predictive analytics that help agencies segment and understand their markets. Now, with 2016... Read More
When the New York Review of Books Focuses on Highway Safety and Infrastructure Funding
Bill CramerMarch 1, 2016
Stories
When the New York Review of Books begins to weigh in on the infrastructure funding crisis, in an article titled A Country Breaking Down, you know the message coming from tolling and other highway advocates is finally breaking through and reaching a... Read More
Traffic Volume Sets U.S. Record, But Can Gas Tax Revenue Keep Up?
Bill CramerFebruary 25, 2016
Stories
3.148 trillion miles. It’s like driving the distance from Earth to Pluto and back. 337 times. And it’s the total distance United States drivers logged on the nation’s roadways in 2015, according to the Federal Highway Administration’s Traffic Volume... Read More
Tolling, Congestion Charging Figure Prominently in Congressional Budget Office Report
Bill CramerFebruary 23, 2016
Stories
A report released this month by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) points to highway pricing as one of the surest ways to boost economic output in the United States, by reducing congestion on the country’s highest-value roads and... Read More
Interoperability: Knitting Together the Nation’s Toll Roads System and What It Means for U.S. Drivers
Bill CramerFebruary 18, 2016
Stories
2016 is beginning to shape up as the year of hassle-free mobility on toll roads across America. Since 2010, tolling agencies have been working hard with IBTTA to make all the country’s electronic toll collection systems interoperable by this October... Read More
Rhode Works Delivers A Big Day for Tolling
Bill CramerFebruary 16, 2016
Stories
The smallest state in the U.S. delivered a big win for highway finance last week when Governor Gina Raimondo signed Rhode Works, an initiative to toll large commercial trucks crossing 14 bridges in Rhode Island. IBTTA is happy to have played a small... Read More
Future Tolling Leaders Build Skills, Professional Networks at IBTTA Leadership Academy
Bill CramerFebruary 9, 2016
Stories
It is a special week in Washington, D.C., with 36 participants gathered for IBTTA’s 2016 Leadership Academy. Two recent Academy alumni, Lauren Hakos of the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission and Lisa Telles of the Transportation Corridor... Read More
Tolling: It All Comes Back to Finance at IBTTA’s Policy Summit
Bill CramerFebruary 4, 2016
Stories
From low oil prices to connected and autonomous vehicles, from the evolution of public-private partnerships (P3s) to new ways of handling money, all the trends that are shaping and reshaping the world’s toll roads come back to finance. For Nikolaus... Read More

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