ARTBA information source goes online

An interactive US map featuring the latest state news and information on transportation funding issues is now online. This has been set up by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The redesigned Transportation Investment Advocacy Centre (TIAC) website is an upgrade of the site originally launched in 2014 by ARTBA. The new TIAC—www.transportationinvestment.org—is a first-of-its-kind, dynamic online education program aimed at helping private citizens, elected officials, organisation
March 9, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
An interactive US map featuring the latest state news and information on transportation funding issues is now online. This has been set up by the 920 American Road &amp; Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The redesigned Transportation Investment Advocacy Centre (TIAC) website is an upgrade of the site originally launched in 2014 by ARTBA. The new TIAC %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal www.transportationinvestment.org Visit www.transportationinvestment.org website false http://www.transportationinvestment.org/ false false%> is a first-of-its-kind, dynamic online education program aimed at helping private citizens, elected officials, organisations and businesses to grow transportation infrastructure resources at the state and local levels through legislation and ballot initiatives.

Visitors to the website now have access to more than three dozen reports and 50 extensive case studies on state and local transportation funding initiatives undertaken over the past several years. They detail both successes and failures that can be gleaned for best practices and lessons learned. The site also serves as a clearinghouse for dozens of examples of campaign resources—advertising, polling, media approaches strategy, consultants and collateral materials.

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