Transportation Finance: Meeting the Funding Challenge Today, Shaping Policies for Tomorrow (2005) / Chapter Skim
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OVERVIEW OF CONFERENCE AGENDA As the third in a series of national transportation finance conferences sponsored jointly by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and the Federal Highway Administration, the conference continued the dialogue on the challenges of financing the nation's transportation systems and provided a forum to exchange perspectives on what has worked, what has not, and what might be tested. Given the timing of the conference -- as proposals were being developed to be part of the reauthorization of the federal surface transportation and aviation programs -- special attention was paid to considering new approaches.
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and • User-Pay Techniques: Toll Roads and Beyond. Track 2: Tools and Techniques to Deliver More Projects Faster Track 2 focused on providing a macro-level view of the state of innovative finance, including an assessment of what is working, what is not, and what the future holds.
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Track 4: New Transportation Initiatives and Demands on Financing The final track, Track 4, centered on the anticipated impacts of new transportation initiatives on the overall demand for financing and considered the question, Will the current tools, techniques, and structures fit the bill? The context for this track included the focus on new security-related transportation investments and mounting concern about the capacity to finance large-scale multimodal transportation projects.
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