Utility companies are seeking to locate communications facilities and evolving wireless communication technology and its infrastructure in state right-of-way.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP LRD 81: Legal Issues Concerning the Use of Transportation Facilities to Generate Revenue for State DOTs summarizes and provides a legal analysis of the legal issues related to a state DOT’s obligation to provide access to the state right-of-way for communication utilities, and a DOT’s options to generate revenue from such access.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Legal Issues Concerning the Use of Transportation Facilities to Generate Revenue for State DOTs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25845.
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