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Bill CramerJuly 21, 2014
SAN DIEGO - On the first day of IBTTA’s Summit on All-Electronic Tolling, Managed Lanes, and Interoperability, participants heard about the next wave of technological advances that will transform highway transportation.
Much of the discussion Sunday...
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Bill CramerJuly 18, 2014
You take the highway
And I’ll take the tollway
And I’ll be there safely before ye…
With that verse, the voice of Mary McToll opens this minute long, black-and-white promotional video from the Illinois Tollway.
The vintage ad shows, when it comes...
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Bill CramerJuly 16, 2014
IBTTA’s eighth annual Summit on All-Electronic Tolling, Managed Lanes, and Interoperability convenes July 20-22 in San Diego, a community that has been a national trailblazer in the introduction of state-of-the-art tolling technology.
In the late...
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Bill CramerJuly 16, 2014
IBTTA was pleased to see this statement July 15 by Patrick Natale, P.E., Executive Director of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), on the passage of H.R. 5021 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Today, the U.S. House of...
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Bill CramerJuly 14, 2014
The tolling industry’s work on severe weather adaptation and resilience received a boost last week when the Eno Center for Transportation published IBTTA’s review of its January, 2013 forum on Superstorm Sandy.
The article by Executive Director and...
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Bill CramerJuly 10, 2014
Howard “Butch” Eley, President of Infrastructure Corporation of America in Nashville, Tennessee, and Heather Reavey, Vice President at HNTB Corporation in Austin, Texas, are Chief Meeting Organizers of IBTTA’s 82nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition,...
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Bill CramerJuly 7, 2014
When IBTTA announced the winners of this year’s Toll Excellence Awards, the list of achievements read like a sneak preview of the scale, effectiveness, and community connections that every tolling agency is striving to attain in the not-too-distant...
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Bill CramerJuly 1, 2014
With rapid population and economic growth, the State of Texas has some major challenges on its highways, including big congestion, big capital budgets, and big expectations from businesses and commuters in search of safe, reliable mobility for...
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Bill CramerJune 27, 2014
In January 2009, IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Patrick D. Jones shared some reflections on highway funding at the annual meeting of the U.S. Transportation Research Board. His thinking is just as pertinent and relevant five years later, as...
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June 25, 2014
While agreement on a sustainable solution to the impending insolvency of The Highway Trust Fund has so far eluded Congress, local governments across the country are seeking alternative methods for funding transportation infrastructure.
One of the...
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