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title: "To Do: Encourage Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems"
summary: |-
  Congress should encourage deployment of intelligent systems by requiring the Transportation Department to provide incentives through the federal highway program for states to adopt tolling.
date: "2015-05-19"
issues: ["Transportation"]
content_type: "Knowledge Base Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2015/05/19/to-do-encourage-deployment-of-intelligent-transportation-systems/"
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# To Do: Encourage Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems

# Recommendation

Congress should encourage deployment of intelligent transportation systems by requiring the Transportation Department to provide incentives through the federal highway program for states to adopt tolling.

# Details

Tolling can play a key role in generating the funding to pay for expanded, more efficient roadway capacity. But too many states do not want to support toll-funded projects because they fear public opposition, despite the fact that the public usually supports toll projects that are introduced. Lowering the share of federal funding for non-toll projects from the current 80 percent share to 60 percent, while funding the full 80 percent for toll projects, would provide a stronger incentive for states to establish more toll projects.

**Keep reading:**

- Stephen J. Ezell and Robert D. Atkinson, “From Concrete to Chips: Bringing the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act Into the Digital Age” (ITIF, May 2015), [https://itif.org/publications/2015/05/19/concrete-chips-bringing-surface-transportation-reauthorization-act-digital](https://itif.org/publications/2015/05/19/concrete-chips-bringing-surface-transportation-reauthorization-act-digital).

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2015/05/19/to-do-encourage-deployment-of-intelligent-transportation-systems/*