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Bill CramerFebruary 4, 2016
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...
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Bill CramerFebruary 2, 2016
Labeling toll road evaders “shameless cheats,” the Staten Island Advance is coming out strongly in favor of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to crack down on drivers who rack up five or more toll violations in 18 months.
Late last year, the...
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Bill CramerJanuary 28, 2016
We often hear that truckers hauling freight avoid toll roads, bridges and tunnels when possible. However, that may be a small vocal minority. A growing network of commercial truckers across the United States have been turning to toll roads to save...
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Bill CramerJanuary 26, 2016
IBTTA President Buddy Croft is wasting no time getting the message out about the value of tolling.
On January 23 in his home state of Rhode Island, Providence Business News (PBN) published a Q&A that laid out Croft’s “transportation Rx,” his...
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Bill CramerJanuary 21, 2016
If you were trying to keep track of the whirlwind of mostly positive media coverage about tolling last year, you may have had trouble catching your breath.
Tolling in the News 2015, a three-minute video that IBTTA released earlier this month, is a...
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Bill CramerJanuary 19, 2016
It’s a wonderful thing when a transformative leader receives the recognition he or she deserves.
And that’s exactly what happened this month, when Georgia Trend magazine included Chris Tomlinson, executive director of the State Road and Tollway...
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Bill CramerJanuary 14, 2016
A recent Atlantic CityLab post by transportation specialist Eric Jaffe shows that, when it comes to congestion on America’s highway, the search for solutions is getting real.
Just before the New Year, Jaffe wrote about a Silicon Valley mobility...
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Bill CramerJanuary 12, 2016
With just two months remaining before IBTTA members meet in Washington, DC for the association’s 2016 Transportation Policy and Finance Summit, a crucial theme already leaps off the pages of the preliminary conference program:
When it comes to the...
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Bill CramerJanuary 7, 2016
In a year-end column on The Huffington Post, IBTTA Executive Director and CEO Patrick Jones points out that the United States is moving farther from a bedrock principle for highway funding: If you use it, you pay for it.
As federal legislators...
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Bill CramerJanuary 5, 2016
People, Partnerships and Progress is the theme that Earl J. “Buddy” Croft III, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA), brings to his term as IBTTA’s 2016 President.
In a statement this week, Croft pointed to the...
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