Tolling Points
April 11, 2019
Amy Potter, Chief Financial Officer of the Transportation Corridor Agencies, and Bernie Arseneau, Vice President, Highways and Roads at HDR, are co-Chief Meeting Organizers of IBTTA’s Summit on Finance & Policy, May 19-21, 2019 in Philadelphia....
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April 9, 2019
Cherian George, Managing Director, Americas, with Fitch Ratings in New York, argues that now is the time for major U.S. infrastructure investment in a mid-March opinion piece for Forbes. He gives three reasons to take action before the window of...
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April 4, 2019
A practical, pragmatic approach to highway finance awaits when you attend IBTTA’s Summit on Finance and Policy, May 19-21, 2019 in Philadelphia.
“Infrastructure finance is an area where it’s easy to step very quickly into the weeds,” says IBTTA...
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March 28, 2019
American motorists set another record in 2018, driving 12.2 billion more miles than they did in the previous year, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) reported last week. Think Uber, Lyft, Amazon deliveries and a whole lot more. U.S....
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March 26, 2019
A U.S. federal judge set an important precedent last week, with a decision that referred a legal challenge on Rhode Island’s truck tolling plan to the state court system.
“IBTTA supports the state of Rhode Island's plan to use truck tolls as one of...
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March 21, 2019
With Chicago one run-off vote away from electing its next mayor, a task force led by former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is out with what amounts to an “all of the above” strategy for improving mobility and combatting congestion in the...
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March 19, 2019
With momentum building for a return to highway tolling in Connecticut, local news reports are beginning to focus on the “agglomeration” of support behind the initiative introduced by Governor Ned Lamont.
It’s hardly a surprise that the state’s...
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March 14, 2019
It’s one thing for county transportation officials to look to tolling as a way to fund needed infrastructure to relieve epic highway congestion.
It’s something else again when user financing becomes a key tool in the toolbox to counter sea level...
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March 12, 2019
Data security and privacy are emerging as a key concern as more and more municipalities embrace smart city development, according to a report issued last month by the New York City-based EastWest Institute (EWI).
It’s an area where tolling agencies...
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March 5, 2019
The transportation community in Minnesota is giving an early thumbs-up to Governor Tim Walz’ plan to allocate new funding to roads, bridges, and transit over the next two years.
The increases are part of a $49.5 Billion budget for 2020-21 that Walz...
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