With so many services now available on a subscription basis, it’s little surprise that the insurance industry is moving in that direction too. One of the newer solutions from auto insurers is the pay-per-mile insurance plan. The idea is straightforward: you pay a flat fee to cover theft insurance and each time you drive the […]
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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 1—the National Landscape: NMA E-Newsletter #549
July 22, 2019 • 0 Comments • ALPR, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS, GPS TRACKING, Infrastructure, LEGISLATION, 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 […]
Where’s Our Cut from Data Mining of our Cars?
• July 7, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, Eric Peters, EVENT DATA RECORDER, Fuel, GPS, GPS TRACKING, Insurance Companies, PRIVACY, Technology, VMT
You’ve probably seen people driving around in cars covered over or “wrapped” with advertisements for some service or product and wondered how much the owner got paid to allow his car to be transformed into a mobile billboard. But he is at least getting paid. The non-wrapped cars are working, too but their owners aren’t being […]
Explanation of the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA and how it will affect Drivers
• July 5, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Ridesharing, Traffic Congestion, VMT
This article first appeared in the NMA Foundation’s Driving Freedoms Magazine Spring 2019 edition. Beyond the rules update mentioned in the article, All Traffic is Local; additional CEQA rules will be coming online soon that could have an even more significant impact on street design. By July 2020, all California cities will be required to […]
Level of Service: Measuring Traffic Congestion
• June 28, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Congestion Pricing, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, TOLL, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, VMT
This article first appeared in the NMA Foundation’s Driving Freedoms Magazine Spring 2019 edition. According to the latest census, 85 percent of all Americans travel to work by single passenger car or by carpool. Since World War II, land use and American culture have been built around driving cars from locations A to B. By […]
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