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Innovative Finance

Abstract of paper by Fluor executives that discusses concessions and innovative financing.

Reason Foundation brief on (TIFIA) Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation act.

Report by Robert Bain on the credibility of traffic forecasts for the means of revenue prediction and subsequent financing of greenfield and brownfield projects.

TR News article on Texas' use of sahdow tolls and pass-through tolling to finance highways in rural regions.

 Federal Highway Administration Office of Innovative Program Delivery-Private Activity Bonds.

Victoria Transport Policy Institute study on the impact of increasing road capacity on the growth rate of congestion.

Piece by Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D. of the Heritage Foundation discussing the possible implications of states opting out of the Federal Highway Program, which would thereby eliminate the federal ban on Interstate Tolling within the respective states.

Tollways Article "The Rise of Divergent Thinking in Finding and Financing Toll Projects" (Spring 2011).

CNN report on Congressional Inquiry into the possibility of a Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax.

Congressional Budget Office Report on Alternative Highway Funding Methods.

Brookings Institution proposal to finance transportation projects with land grabs while suggesting that with increasing congestion comes increasing accessibility.

Transportation Point article on alternative methods for generating revenue to fund transportation projects that involve user fees.

2010 Report on public receptiveness of Mileage-Based User Fees by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Transportation Point article on California's extensive bridge replacement and rehabilitation program that has managed to continue despite state-wide budget cuts and furlouhgs thanks to innnovative construction techniques and financing.

Nossman LLC Geoffrey S. Yarema Presentation on recent application of innovative financing tools.

Texas DOT brief on the application of Pass Through Tolling to finance highway improvements in rural areas.

Article from Governing Magazine on 6 toll projects that were financed with differing shares of private and public funds.

Brookings Institution report on Road Use pricing techniques and possible applications to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Region.

Report by National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission on "A New Framework for Transportation Finance.

2009 report on public receptiveness of Mileage-Based User Fees by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Report by Cesar Queiroz of the World Bank on the various means of financing transportation and addressing congestion through the collection of user fees across the globe.

National Cooperative Highway Research Program report containing results from public opinion polls on tolls and road pricing within different geographic regions, ranging from countries to states to metro areas.

New Jersey government report on the proposal to create a state-owned non profit corporation to control the state's major revenue-generating assets as a means of reducing the state's debt burden.

Opinion piece by Dr. Joseph M. Giglio of the Hudson Institute advocating the lifting of federal restrictions on the methods by which the states finance transportation projects.

Interview by HNTB with Pat Jones of the IBTTA on the benefit of electronic tolling and user-fee collection.

Standard & Poor's credit review of Mexico's Toll Road sector.

Standard & Poor's report on the changing infrastructure investment market and the transition to a new methodology of considering credit ratings for organizations.

Moody's Credit Rating Agency's report of a stable outlook for U.S. State and Local Government owned Toll Facilities.

Moody's Credit Rating Agency's report of a stable outlook for U.S. State and Local Government owned Toll Facilities.

Jack Finn HNTB opinion piece advocating alternative transportation funding methods that employ tolling.

2010 InterCountyConnector Financial Plan.

Transportation Journal article "Guidelines for Shaping Perceptions of Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax" (VMT).

U.S. Chamber of Commerce study on possible means of generating funding for highways and transit in the future.

Report by Robert Bain on the variablility of traffic revenue forecasts.

Standard & Poor's review of congestion pricing as a viable means for financing transportation infrastructure projects.

Brookings Institution study on the challenges of transportation finance in the 21st century and the need for a fair and effective means of generating revenue for transportation that is derived from user fees.

Study by the Regional Planning Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut into cordon congestion pricing around Lower Manhattan.