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The Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC) Institute: An AASHTO Center for Excellence enhances taxpayer value from transportation investment by promoting public sector capacity building in the analysis, understanding, and use of project finance techniques through a program of training, sharing of best practices, and technical assistance to all State Departments of Transportation and their local partner agencies.

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  • The cooperative agreement between the BATIC Institute, an AASHTO Center of Excellence, and the Federal Highway Administration to support capacity building efforts in project finance will end on March 31, 2022.

    This website is retained as an informational resource of capacity building activities conducted from 2015-2022.

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A final update to this content was completed in March 2022.

Project Finance
Capacity Building

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Dynamic exchanges of ideas and information
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  • Peer Exchanges
  • Expert Panel Sessions
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  • Webinar
    March 17, 2022

    This webinar focused on gaining new insight into what transportation practitioners are thinking about the legislation and what's next for state DOTs.

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  • Webinar
    October 21, 2021

    This webinar explored how over the past several years many state legislatures have enacted, or are actively considering, proposals to increase funding or provide additional financing for transportation infrastructure.

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  • Webinar
    June 2, 2021

    As electric vehicle sales continue to grow, a robust network of public charging stations is needed. This webinar highlights the latest developments on federal funding and finance options for developing electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and the importance of building key partnerships, leveraging private investment, lessons learned, and barriers that remain.

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  • Webinar
    March 10, 2021

    This webinar reviewed the findings of a GAO report and had presentations from two states that have implemented federal funds swap programs with their local agencies.

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  • Webinar
    December 7, 2020

    This webinar reviewed FHWA's process mapping exercise for the project closeout and funds management process in seven states.

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  • Webinar
    December 2, 2020

    This webinar included presentations by State DOTs on finance workforce development needs and strategies in their states, followed by a facilitated discussion moderated by Jack Basso and a question-and-answer session.

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  • Peer Exchange
    October 15, 2020
    Washington, DC

    The BATIC Institute P3 Community of Practice met to discuss initial findings of an FHWA rapid-response research project examining force majeure terms in P3 contracts.

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  • Webinar Series: Innovation in Practice
    June 24, 2020

    This webinar explored how performance incentives are used to optimize project delivery in Public-Private Partnerships (P3). Incentives that stimulate developer performance were discussed, with descriptions of how these incentives may be used in different phases of the project lifecycle.

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  • Webinar Series: Innovation in Practice
    June 9, 2020

    The BATIC Institute conducted an educational and informational briefing and a refresher course on the Bureau's existing credit assistance program, products and services, and how they can be used to create additional value and savings for project sponsors.

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  • Webinar Series: Innovation in Practice
    February 20, 2020

    This webinar covered Project Bundling - a comprehensive and accelerated delivery solution for addressing strategic program goals - and provided transportation professionals with a better sense of how state DOTs select projects. Perspectives from FHWA and State DOTs were presented.

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  • Peer Exchange
    January 15, 2020
    Washington, DC

    The BATIC Institute Public-Private Partnership Community of Practice held its inaugural in-person meeting in conjunction with the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

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