For generations, Ford worked closely with Firestone, which provided the tires installed on new Fords and developed them to work with specific Ford vehicles. That relationship soured in the late ’90s when Ford and Firestone were publicly vilified over Ford Explorer SUVs sometimes rolling over while being driven on Firestone Wilderness A/T tires. To this […]
162 Blog Posts From the REVENUE GENERATION Tag
Getting Googled: What does a Connected Car Really Mean?
• April 15, 2021 • 1 Comment • Auto Industry, connected cars, Electric Vehicle, Eric Peters, Insurance Companies, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, Technology, VMT
Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Spring 2021 Update
March 24, 2021 • 0 Comments • ATFI, Congestion Pricing, Fuel Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls, Traffic Congestion, VMT
At the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s official arrival in the United States, state governments face unprecedented budget shortfalls as they search for ways to raise revenues for transportation projects in the absence of the proper funds. The pandemic has kept people off of roads across the country, and transportation departments from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are […]
Drivers to be given Real-Time “Risk Scores” using Embedded Telematic Surveillance Sensors
March 17, 2021 • 1 Comment • Auto Industry, Black Boxes, CELL PHONE, connected cars, GPS, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, M2M, OBD, PRIVACY, racial profiling, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Technology, VISION ZERO
By Joe Cadillic, co-writer of the NMA Street Surveillance Blog and founder of the MassPrivatel Blog Gone are the days when insurance companies used race, sex, and a person’s age to determine their auto insurance premiums. A new whitepaper by Cognizant, titled The New Auto Insurance Ecosystem: Telematics, Mobility and the Connected Car, reveals the real reasons […]
The War on Parking Escalates: NMA E-Newsletter #633
March 1, 2021 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Parking, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, VISION ZERO
Even before the pandemic, the war on parking was ramping up in America. The curb was escalating as the place of most conflict, and that battle has only increased. The mission to eliminate curb parking by repurposing the space for bike and bus lanes is supported more by wishful Vision Zero thinking than any serious […]
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
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 […]
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