Innovative Approaches For Making Transportation Improvements: The transportation industry’s lament for the last several years has been that there are insufficient funds for not only maintaining the existing infrastructure but it is also woefully inadequate to construct needed projects to address the continued growth in vehicular and freight traffic. Plus, Georgia has the added struggle for funding highway improvements given the format by which the gasoline tax is applied, or not applied, to the growth in inflation. Although not quite desperate times, the challenges call for new and innovative techniques to find capital for new construction as well as providing the necessary funds for operation and maintenance.
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is about to pave a new way to address these transportation challenges through implementation of two managed lanes projects.