Charging, Tolling & RUC

The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association's (IBTTA) has elected Tim Stewart, executive director of the E-470 Public Highway Authority to serve as its first vice president Stewart’s term begins on 1 January 2017; in 2018, Stewart will serve as IBTTA president. As the head of E-470, Stewart provides executive leadership and strategic guidance for all tolling initiatives. Stewart is responsible for the operations of the 47-mile toll road and also the ExpressToll brand, which provides tolling

Chris Tomlinson, executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and State Road and Tollway Authority has been elected by the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) membership to serve as its second vice president. Tomlinson’s term begins on 1 January 2017; in 2019, Tomlinson will serve as IBTTA president.

More than 700 global transportation leaders from 22 countries gathered for the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association's (IBTTA) 84th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Denver, Colorado, last week. During the meeting, Emanuela Stocchi, director of International Affairs, Associazione Italiana Società Concessionarie Autostrade e Trafori (AISCAT), Rome, Italy, was elected by the IBTTA membership to serve as 2017 president of the Association. Stocchi’s term begins on 1 January 2017. Stocchi has s

Increasing congestion on US highways and roads is driving almost three in four (72 per cent) Americans to support using tolls to pay for critical or needed transportation infrastructure projects if there are insufficient funds from other sources, according to the latest America THINKS national public opinion survey by HNTB Corporation. The survey polled a random nationwide sample of 1,022 Americans between 21 and 28 July 2016.

Paris-based global toll roads concession and construction company Vinci has taken an unspecified strategic stake in TollPlus, the Phoenix-based developer of electronic toll collection systems, through its Vinci Highways US subsidiary.

Confidex’s new windscreen-mounted RFID toll tag, Xenon VIP, combines a high level crypto-mechanism on a state-of-the-art NXP chip and a thin, tamper-evident label structure. The tag measures 107mm x 21.5mm and has a white, printable label surface and can be either factory encoded or personalised with variable barcodes and QR codes.

Johannesburg’s new mayor, Herman Mashaba, has promised motorists they can stop looking over their shoulders over e-toll payments, says Business Day Live. Making his inaugural council speech in Johannesburg, Mashaba said there would be ‘no cooperation’ between Johannesburg police and South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) on outstanding e-toll payments. Mashaba is also focusing on cleaning up the city’s finances, vowing to crack down on ‘fruitless and irregular expenditure’ incurred by city offic

Transportation leaders gathered for IBTTA's 84th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Denver, Colorado, this week

Advances in electronic tolling are transforming highway transportation by providing greater mobility, smoother traffic flow, and improved safety for drivers and their passengers, according to new survey data released by the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA). The new survey, Toll Technology Transforms Mobility for Customers, conducted during the third quarter of 2016, collected technology-related data from 36 tolling facilities in 18 states, representing all regions of the cou

Voters in Baldwin County, Alabama, US, will be asked to approve a county toll authority in the November ballot, according to WKRG. The agency would manage the construction and operation of future toll roads, including the Baldwin Beach Express North, which would connect Interstate 10 to Interstate 65. Voters will be asked to approve a Baldwin County toll authority on the November ballot. It would give the legislature the power to establish a toll authority to oversee the construction and operation of fut