- PIKEPASS System Turns 30 As The Oklahoma Turnpike Begins A Transition To AET
- MTA Spotlights Its Initiative To Expand Economic Opportunities For MWBEs
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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PIKEPASS System Turns 30 As The Oklahoma Turnpike Begins A Transition To AET
Muskogee Phoenix reports on a milestone in the history of electronic toll collection. Thirty years ago — on January 1, 1991 — the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, under executive director Richard Ridings, launched PIKEPASS and became the first state agency to adopt an electronic collection system. Today, OTA has nearly 882,000 PIKEPASS account holders and more than 2.7 million transponders in operation. Tim Gatz, OTA chief and ODOT secretary, discusses the agency’s leadership in ETC development and its plan to begin rolling out PlatePay, an all-electronic system, this year.
AET (All-Electronic Tolling) ETC Systems Oklahoma Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) PIKEPASS Transponder RFID TechnologyMTA Spotlights Its Initiative To Expand Economic Opportunities For MWBEs
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued a news release on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day to commemorate ten years of achievement by its Small Business Development Program, which provides minority- and women-owned business enterprises with both mentoring and “capacity building opportunities.” To date, the program has awarded 455 contracts valued at $480 million and helped create or maintain more than 11,520 jobs. The release also notes that MTA Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Michael Garner appeared in a PBS special broadcast yesterday, “New York State Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Then and Now.”
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York New York City Transportation and Infrastructure Leadership And Workforce DiversityThese are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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