Off-turnpike projects are located within the 10-county area adjacent to the
turnpike and are deemed complementary to the
turnpike.
Suspicious person/motor vehicle, spoken to, moved along, 40 Hartford
TurnpikeKey factors supporting the rating are the
turnpike's strong financial performance, experienced management, low per-mile toll costs and support from the Florida Department of Transportation.
The information contained in TEAMS is accessed through a map-driven interface--a virtual turnpike--that allows
Turnpike Enterprise staff to locate an individual asset such as a sign, building, or section of pavement as they navigate around an interactive desktop map.
"Florida's
Turnpike Enterprise is the second largest revenue generator for the State of Florida so it is vital we have a proven and innovative solution that is completely scalable, has industry-leading performance and allow for network growth for the long road ahead," said Bob Hartmann, director for the Tolls Data Center.
The 1000 kW MTU Detroit Diesel generators will be installed at eight service plazas, with three additional units placed at the Florida Highway Patrol and Florida
Turnpike Enterprises headquarters, also along the
turnpike.
At the outset of the project, a team from Florida's
Turnpike Enterprise and PBS&J were assembled to work together at the
Turnpike Enterprise headquarters in Ocoee, Fla.
This jagged rocky outcropping, which the
Turnpike's eastern spur uses as a stepping stone over the marshes known as the Meadowlands, is the only natural break from the flat lowlands for miles.
The first piece of our public-goods story is the nearly universal and well-documented poverty of the
turnpikes.(14) Of the Middle Atlantic states, Durrenberger [1931, 112] says, "[considered] from the standpoint of dividends,
turnpike stocks were exceedingly poor investments," and of the many
turnpikes of New England, Taylor [1934, 266] says, "it is doubtful whether more than five or six paid their proprietors even reasonably well." Though information from the period is fragmentary, Taylor [1934, 281] finds that
turnpike dividends in New England were far below those of other enterprises: