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IBTTA's Virtual Maintenance, Engineering and Roadway Operations Workshop Makes Us 'Stronger Together'
Bill CramerJune 23, 2020
With less than three weeks to go before sessions get under way, the excitement is building for a revamped, reconfigured Maintenance, Engineering and Roadway Operations Workshop July 12-14 that responds to two key pieces of the pandemic experience:... Read More
IBTTA Stresses Networking, Member Engagement as Conference Programming Pivots to Online
Bill CramerJune 16, 2020
The most fundamental purpose for any business or professional trade association is to bring people together and keep the community engaged and strong. When the coronavirus lockdown began, it immediately became clear to IBTTA that it must pivot from... Read More
New Federal Highway Bill Could Produce 'Teachable Moments' on Tolling
Bill CramerJune 9, 2020
The federal transportation reauthorization process took another step forward last week when the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee released a five-year, $494-billion plan to fund highways, transit, safety and research... Read More
Post-Pandemic Rebuilding Calls for Different Kind of Marshall Plan
Bill CramerJune 2, 2020
As cities, counties, states, and countries around the world begin reopening after a brutal two-and-a-half-month lockdown period, many of them are looking to history for examples of the massive capital investment that will be needed to reboot stalled... Read More
Nationwide Virtual Press Briefing Emphasizes Tolling's Rapid Response to COVID-19
Bill CramerMay 26, 2020
The grit, determination, and capacity for innovation in the global tolling industry took center stage last Thursday, as IBTTA hosted a well-attended news briefing for more than 50 international, national, state, and local reporters interested in the... Read More
Pandemic Opens Opportunity to Rethink, Reboot Transportation
Bill CramerMay 19, 2020
In a long, wide-ranging post for Forbes, San Francisco-based transportation strategist Timothy Papandreou of Emerging Transport Advisors puts forward the provocative argument that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up an opportunity to rethink and... Read More
Post-COVID Infrastructure Plan Must Account for Maintenance Costs
Bill CramerMay 12, 2020
As policy analysts and decision-makers turn their attention to the mammoth task of “building back better” from the COVID-19 pandemic and getting America back to work, they keep pointing back to tolling and other forms of user financing as an... Read More
Lost Highway Revenues Point to Central Role for Tolling
Bill CramerMay 5, 2020
With the Coronavirus shutdown jeopardizing highway maintenance and reconstruction projects from Columbus, Ohio to Bend, Oregon, a news report this week in USA Today drives home the message that all surface transportation funding is local—and tolls... Read More
Leadership in Unprecedented Times: 'I Like a Complicated Challenge,' Johnson Says
Bill CramerApril 28, 2020
Bill Cramer, Communications Director, IBTTA, recently sat down with Samuel Johnson, Interim CEO of the Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) in California and President of IBTTA, to discuss the dual challenge of leading an international... Read More
Virtual Vendor Forum, Online Networking Show Strength of IBTTA Community
Bill CramerApril 21, 2020
As tolling agencies continue responding and adapting to an unprecedented global health emergency, IBTTA is supplying the human connectivity that keeps the industry healthy and sound, in good times and bad. Many of the tools and techniques—from... Read More

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