Tollsmart

Given that Tollsmart is a Virginia-based company we're thrilled that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has embraced an open data approach similar to other forward-thinking agencies on the West Coast such as WSDOT in Washington and VTA in Silicon Valley, both of whom we've worked with and who have made their Express Lanes dynamic pricing feeds publicly available to the developer community via APIs. This is a far smarter approach than shouldering the burden of having to create, market and manage consumer navigation apps, a skillset which, understandably, is not typically available in most transportation agencies. Instead VDOT, VTA and WSDOT are encouraging the developer community to innovate on top of this data, planting the seeds to 'let a thousand flowers bloom' instead of shouldering this burden themselves.