Jim Whitty was mentioned in my 2015 OreGo blog entry.
Where is Jim Whitty now and what has he been doing:
Affiliations: 1: Partner of D'Artagnan Consulting LLP, USA
http://www.dartagnanconsulting.com
From public service to private consulting
http://www.dartagnanconsulting.com/news/jim-whitty-joins-dartagnan/
" Jim led Oregon’s efforts on road usage charge legislation for 14 years while serving as the administrator of Oregon’s Road User Fee Task Force, an independent policy body that developed cutting edge usage charge funding policies for light vehicles, that led to passage of the nation’s first per mile charge law (??? What law???). Jim crafted and orchestrated two successful per mile charge pilot demonstrations, the RUFPP in 2006-07 and the RUCPP in 2012-13, and the nation’s first operational road usage charge program known as OReGO. Jim Whitty’s experience and knowledge make him a perfect fit for handling strategic marketing and vision for D’Artagnan’s national and international programs."
http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/books/10.1049/pbtr008e_ch18
A 2016 presentation by Whitty
http://www.dartagnanconsulting.com/news/how-to-build-consensus-around-road-charging/
http://www.dartagnanconsulting.com/news/washington-state-transportation-commission-awards-ruc-contract-to-dartagnan-berk-consulting-and-wsp-parsons-brinckerhoff/
https://www.ibtta.org/member/dartagnan-consulting-llp
CONTACT INFORMATION
1108 Lavaca Street, Suite 110-227
Austin, TX 78701
United States
Phone: +1 (571) 535-0600
Fax: +1 (830) 935-4514
http://www.dartagnanconsulting.com
Steve Morello:
http://shannoncrum.net/steve-morello/
Jim Whitty:
http://shannoncrum.net/jim-whitty/
ShannonCrum.net website?
https://engagefully.org/Speakers/Details/72675
"Shannon Crum is currently providing professional services in the areas of transportation planning, policy development, and road user charging. She brings more than 20 years’ experience in transportation, land-use planning, and economic analysis."
IBTTA:
https://wwrtw.ibtta.org
Summit in Portland July 2018
Close relationship with some government employees:
https://www.ibtta.org/governance
For example:
John Lawson, Virginia Department of Transportation, Richmond, VA
http://www.virginiadot.org/about_vdot/vdot_leadership/john_w._lawson.asp
http://www.virginiadot.org/about_vdot/default.asp
VDOT is a .org website? Why not a .gov????? Looks like a state government entity?
This is a VDOT.gov website for example
https://my.vdot.virginia.gov from the website:
"This website includes hyperlinks to sites neither controlled nor sponsored by VDOT or the Commonwealth of Virginia. Links may open in a new window."
It appears to be a portal to VDOT.org
What an interesting mix of public and private enterprise?
This is a government list of all state DOTs:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/about/webstate.cfm
Arkansas for example is a .com website ???!
http://www.arkansashighways.com
I will have to revisit my prior Top Level Domain blog entry! .com is a commercial TLD!
Perhaps this explains it"
http://www.egov.com
http://www.egov.com/who-we-serve:
Look at the above website and all the states that this commercial business entity provides services to!
What started out as an investigation of RUC has suddenly exploded into an investigation of the cozy quasi government relationship of a private/public nature. It looks like the .org and .com side of the relationship is conducting a high degree of .gov functions via "foot in the door" or "nose of the camel under the tent"!
Wow! Top Level Domains of .com and .org subsuming by the business model vehicle of being a "portal entry" to Top Level Domains of .gov?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gov
https://www.state.gov/misc/60289.htm
Whole new ball game!
What Fee Based payments like RUC for example might these .org/.com websites bar collecting for remittance to the government? What information might they be collecting for their sole or shared use?
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