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New York Governor Cuomo is has called for a study to look at congestion pricing in New York City.
How would congestion pricing work? Two ways to phrase it:
What would NYC’s congestion pricing fund? mass transit
Do other cities have congestion pricing? Yes, Stockholm Sweden
Could a city in your state impose its own congestion pricing?…
The City: Columbus OH
What’s a connected transportation data exchange? The Smart Columbus Operating System is a system to share near-real-time data on traffic
How does it work? it will collect data from cars that transmit metrics like time, speed and location with road-side units. The data will be overlayed to create a regional transportation outlook
But, how does the city get the car data?
Wyoming Department of Trasnsportation is providing the public with access to a map of alternative vehcile fueling station.
Equipment World | Wyoming maps out sites for alternative vehicle fueling
Columbus, Ohio and Las Vegas, Nevada are both toying with smart technology to improve traffic.
Three things to know about the traffic technology testers:
California Assembly Bill 544 would allow single occupancy EV cars to use HOV lanes through 2025 with a DMV decal.
Tax rebates, tax incentives, easy HOV access…oh, my!
Sacramento Bee | Would you buy an electric car if you could use the carpool lane alone?
A ballot proposition in California looks to prevent the Legislature from increasing the gas tax by requiring voter approval for fuel tax increases.
Group behind the initiative: Reform California
Sacramento Bee | Gax tax repeal would strip California lawmakers’ ability to pass increases
Utah Tranportation Authority is a thorn in the side of Utah elected officials. They’ve been studying the issue, and trying to craft a solutions to remove the obstacles they see in the agency.
For those of you in Texas, think of an agency that is a mix of 2017 TABC, 2013 HHSC and 2011 TXDOT when it lost a billion dollars.
3 solutions from Utah’s elected officials to reign in a rogue agency:
The State: Virginia
The goal of the public-private partnership: “optimizing opportunities for innovative collaboration and investment in Virginia’s transportation system”
The data shared with the private sector: 22 different data sets, with initial data sets including traffic volumes, speed limits, travel advisories, lane closures, crashes, truck restrictions, traffic sensors, incidents, sign messages and locations, paving schedules, short- and long-term weather events, the Six-Year…
The Business: Integrated Roadways
What are integrated roadways? Roads with sensors, phone, and internet connectivity, telecommunications, fiber-optic cable, and high-speed Internet, as well as other hardware, inside road surfaces.
What do local pilot projects look like? Kansas City has a pilot project to use integrated roads in construction of a combined 1.5 miles of pavement in the spring of 2018 with expected completion by August.
Would these integrated roads collect data for the benefit…