PRINTER'S NO. 3345
No. 286 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY MARKOSEK, MELIO, COY, CLARK, LANGTRY, VROON,
GEIST, TOMLINSON, KING, BATTISTO, LAUGHLIN, KRUSZEWSKI AND
SEMMEL, MARCH 25, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, MARCH 25, 1992
A RESOLUTION
1 Urging the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to consider holding
2 hearings to study the proposed electronic toll and traffic
3 management (ETTM) system.
4 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has been
5 studying implementation of an electronic toll and traffic
6 management system for several years; and
7 WHEREAS, The Commission has engaged in interagency
8 cooperation with toll agencies in the metropolitan New York and
9 New Jersey areas to define the necessary elements of a regional
10 ETTM system which will be released for bid in early 1992 based
11 on the specifications derived; and
12 WHEREAS, The Commission has talked with vendors of several
13 similar systems which can be used on the Pennsylvania Turnpike;
14 and
15 WHEREAS, The issues of implementing an ETTM system are
16 complex, technical and problematic; and
17 WHEREAS, The Commission seeks to identify and eliminate the
18 problems of converting to an ETTM system and seeks to devise a
1 system which is compatible with any in place on adjoining New
2 York and New Jersey highways; therefore be it
3 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives urge the
4 Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to consider holding hearings
5 and taking testimony to study the complexities, technology and
6 problems which conversion to an electronic toll and traffic
7 management system will engender and how to best confront those
8 issues so they are resolved before the system is implemented on
9 the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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