August 7, 2022 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
Parking Meters,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
Red-Light Cameras,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Speed Cameras,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL ROAD,
Traffic Tickets,
VISION ZERO As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters LLC. A recent city audit stated that the private company had already recouped its entire $1.16 billion investment plus $502.5 million more. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, Chicago parking meter revenue is back […]
October 18, 2020 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
ILLINOIS,
INDIANA,
infrastructure,
KANSAS,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEW JERSEY,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
OKLAHOMA,
PENNSYLVANIA,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD Reason Foundation’s Transportation Guru Robert Poole released a study in August of how nine states could financially benefit if they were to lease their toll road systems to private concerns. Poole writes that these states would gain significant income from a long-term public-private partnership (P3), especially if the state had already paid off its outstanding […]
July 21, 2019 • ALPR,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
GPS,
GPS TRACKING,
infrastructure,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
Road Usage Charge,
Technology,
TOLL ROAD,
VMT,
VMT Tax A road user charge or RUC (also referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax and Mileage Based User Fees or MBUF) currently permeates nearly every discussion of how our country will pay for infrastructure in the future. Many transportation planners and elected officials seem to agree the time has come to […]
June 24, 2018 • CALIFORNIA,
Car Care,
CONNECTICUT,
DELAWARE,
Drone,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
infrastructure,
MICHIGAN,
MINNESOTA,
NEBRASKA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
PENNSYLVANIA,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
Technology,
TEXAS Nothing worse than hitting a pothole you can’t avoid on the road. Not only is it jarring and disruptive to your driving but it can also damage your car. AAA reports that American drivers pay an estimated $3 billion per year to repair cars damaged by potholes. AAA Manager of Technical Services Michael Calkins said […]
October 8, 2017 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INDIANA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
ROAD-USER FEES,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING In late September, President Donald Trump changed his mind on PPPs or Public-Private Partnerships, one of his bedrock funding mechanisms for funding infrastructure. He campaigned on the idea of utilizing PPPs and seemed to be for the idea all the way up until he reversed his support when talking to the House Ways and Means […]
