- TransCore Wins New Denver Airport Transportation Management System Contract
- Pennsylvania Turnpike CEO Explains ORT's Benefits For Drivers
- Federal Transportation Spending Decisions Await Election's Outcome
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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TransCore Wins New Denver Airport Transportation Management System Contract
TransCore announced that Denver International Airport (DEN) has awarded it a contract to expand and improve its existing ground transportation management system to help “improve commercial vehicle access control and revenue collection, while improving traffic flow on its terminal roadways.”
TransCore will introduce “technology for automated commercial vehicle identification, combining radio frequency identification (RFID) and license plate recognition (LPR) to provide virtual queuing, automated taxi dispatch, and improved access control for commercial vehicles and transportation network companies (TNC) entering passenger pickup and drop-off zones.” The upgrade will improve traffic flow and reduce passenger wait times.
The new contract extends TransCore’s long partnership with the airport, one of the busiest in the US. The company has been providing DEN with ground transportation management services for about 25 years.
Automated License Plate Recognition Colorado Denver CO Metro Region Intelligent Traffic Management Systems Intelligent Transportation Systems TransCore Transponder RFID TechnologyPennsylvania Turnpike CEO Explains ORT's Benefits For Drivers
“The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s transition to Open Road Tolling (ORT) is the most significant improvement to the PA Turnpike since it opened 84 years ago,” writes CEO Mark Compton in a cogent op-ed column that explains how the change will do more than improve toll collection efficiency.
When the first phase of PTC’s systemwide conversion goes live in January, he notes, customers will have the convenience of non-stop travel and the benefit the commission’s equitable new per-mile rate structure. Further improvements will follow with the addition of new interchanges made possible by construction cost reductions.
However, Mr. Compton rates the promise of greater roadway safety as the most significant outcome of ORT for drivers (and ultimately first responders). Crashes will be avoided when motorists no longer have to navigate through toll plaza traffic or around tollbooth infrastructure. As the column notes, at several new interchanges where the commission has already installed ORT, crash rates have diminished by as much as 76 percent.
AET (All-Electronic Tolling) ETC Systems Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts) Open-Road Tolling Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) Toll Rate ChangesFederal Transportation Spending Decisions Await Election's Outcome
Transport Topics reports, “Fiscal 2025 funding legislation and other must-pass bills await consideration on Capitol Hill while most members of Congress are campaigning during the final weeks before the elections. When lawmakers return to Washington after the November elections, their priority will be finalizing bills to fund operations at the U.S. Department of Transportation and other agencies. Funding authority for the government expires Dec. 20, following President Joe Biden’s enactment of a short-term measure averting a partial federal shutdown.” Transport Topics looks at some of the pending spending measures and notes that transportation stakeholders are watching to see how Congress will resolve differences between House and Senate budget proposals.
Company and Agency Financial Issues And Reports Economic & Social Considerations Affecting Transportation US Department of Transportation (USDOT) US Gov't Transportation FundingThese are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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