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FHWA not responsible for errors, reader says - Baloney & balderdash, twaddle & claptrap, we say


One reader emailed that our reference to "errors in FHWA data... may be misleading, as the errors don't necessarily lie with FHWA."
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USA Today reports dramatically more expensive tolls - lousy data (ANALYSIS)


USA Today had an article (2008-01-28) saying tolls are getting "dramatically more expensive." There are certainly some large increases in US tolls, but in line with industry practice many tolls have been frozen for quite a number of years so it is unclear what it means on an annual basis.  read more »

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Feds release toll facilities database - rather empty still


The feds are doing a toll facilities database - more precisely the office of operations at FHWA. The database is a work in progress, the most polite phrase we can contrive to say it misses many of the most important toll facilities in America. But to emphasize the positive it does have 40 facilities listed, though one we spot is no longer a tolllroad - the Daniel Boone Parkway in Kentucky. Toll collection ended there a while ago.
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DATA:Public-Private Ventures


DATA:Public-Private Ventures

Originally published in issue 44 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 1999.

Page:26

Subjects:data public-private ventures PPVs

Agencies:Public Works Financing PWF

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E-TOLL/DSRC STANDARDS: USDOT talks of going it alone on data link


E-TOLL/DSRC STANDARDS: USDOT talks of going it alone on data link

Originally published in issue 31 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1998.

Page:8

Subjects:DSRC standards data link layer problems

Agencies:USDOT JPO ATSM

Sources:Houser Armstrong Jones

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