Editor’s Note: After we posted this Tolling in America Blog, Car and Driver posted an article with a headline question: Can You Name the World’s Most Expensive Toll Road? and guess what? It is the great state of Pennsylvania! Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation decided this month to place tolls on nine bridges located on […]
113 Blog Posts From the Infrastructure Tag
Pennsylvania Goes Tollistic
• February 24, 2021 • 1 Comment • E-ZPass, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, OOIDA, PENNSYLVANIA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
Are State DOT Rockfall Projects Money Pits?: NMA E-Newsletter #630
• February 8, 2021 • 0 Comments • Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, Rockfalls, SAFETY
Have you ever wondered how much it costs to mitigate rockfalls on state highways and interstates? The bigger question, perhaps, is the expense worth it? Late last year, NorthJersey.com posted an interesting article about rockfall project expenses in the state. Even though they did not come out and say it, it seems some rockfall projects […]
Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Winter 2020/2021 Update
• December 23, 2020 • 0 Comments • AFTI, Congestion Pricing, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, PPP, Public Private Partnership, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
“We’ve gotten precious little help from the federal government,” Pennsylvania State Representative Tim Hennessey recently said as he touted his support for a new network of tolls on the commonwealth’s major bridges. States are pleading for more federal help as our nation continues to work on rebounding from the crippling economic effects of the COVID-19 […]
A State Should Never Lease Its Roads
• November 25, 2020 • 0 Comments • AFTI, Congestion Pricing, Infrastructure, NMA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in October 2020 as an NMA E-Newsletter #614. If you would like to receive our one-topic weekly E-Newsletter, join the NMA today. 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 […]
Big Data in Connected Smart Cars: Myths & Reality
• October 26, 2020 • 0 Comments • ACLU, Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, connected cars, DRIVERLESS CARS, Infrastructure, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, IoT, PRIVACY, Right to Repair, SAFETY, Technology
Today’s smart cars collect a wide variety of data, from the road’s width, information about potential hazards, a history of user behavior, and so much more. Connected cars are just a small piece of the IoT, which is helping to make our world more interconnected than ever before. Whether you are feeding information to your […]
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