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Job Alert: Director of Electronic Toll Collection – MTA Bridges and Tunnels – New York, NY

July 26, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Control Code: P999U/R920
Resume Due Date: August 12, 2011
Job Title: Director of Electronic Toll Collection
Department/Division: Tolling Initiatives
Work Location: 2 Broadway, New York, NY
Earnings Potential : Commensurate with salary history and experience (Actual salary offers are made subject to the salary administration policy and are made considering a number of factors including, but not limited to, the selected candidate’s salary and work history.)
Hay Points: 800
Overtime Eligibility: Not eligible for paid overtime in accordance with FLSA

Job Description:
Manages the planning, engineering, design, acquisition and installation of state of the art electronic toll collection technologies and systems, including research and testing; manage consultants and contractors as necessary; administer capital projects budgets; work collaboratively with all functional areas to address operational, customer service and other needs; reports to the Senior Director of New Toll Initiatives.

Specialized Knowledge:

At least 10 years experience working in the toll industry at a level that has included detailed technical knowledge of state of the art toll collection technologies and systems obtained through a technical degree and in field experience, experience with systems engineering through classroom work or practical application on multiple projects and extensive project management skills. Excellent communicatons skills and ability to work as part of a team

Education:

Undergraduate technical degree, master’s degree preferred

How to Apply

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1 – Place the Control Code found below in the upper right hand corner of your resume.

2 – Ensure that this office receives your resume by the Due Date provided above.

3 – Make sure that your resume includes a chronological work history.

4 – Send your resume to this address:

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Transit Funding Solutions, Parisian Edition

March 5, 2009 at 6:30 pm

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(Source: StreetsBlog)

We want mass transit in American cities, right? Right. So how are we going to pay for it?paris-metro-cite

Today on the Streetsblog Network, Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic suggests looking across the Atlantic for some answers to that question, taking New York’s MTA and Paris’s RATP as examples of the differing approaches in the U.S. and in Europe. His detailed analysis of the funding of the Parisian transit authority, which relies in large part on payroll taxes and to a much greater extent than the MTA on government subsidies, leads him to a couple of conclusions, among them:

So, on the surface level, [the Parisian transit authority] appears to be funded much like the MTA, with funds coming from dedicated taxes and from government subsidies. There are two important differences, however: one, revenue from the taxes that pay for transportation in Paris are less likely to vary significantly during economic downturns; two, the government subsidies are designed to compensate when tax revenue falls short.

Click here to read the entire article.

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