BART San Francisco Airport Extension
A $1.55 billion project financed with New Starts funding and airport authority, state and local monies.
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LYNX Blue Line (CATS)
A $463 million financing including New Starts grant, state money, and bonds from a local sales tax.
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Chesapeake Expressway
A $117 million toll financing involving state and municipal bonds and the Virginia Toll Facilities Revolving Account.
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E-470 Denver
A $1.2 billion financing including toll revenue bonds, as well as an innovative combination of local fees.
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Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
This $2.2 billion program was financed with FTA monies and used an innovative Design-Build-Operate-Maintain procurement.
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Katy Freeway Reconstruction
A $2.8 billion improvement combining federal, state, and local funding and a financial partnership between a state DOT and local toll authority.
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Iway (I-195 Relocation Project)
A multi-year, $610-million financing in Rhode Island involving a combination of GARVEE and motor fuel tax revenue bonds.
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I-495 Capital Beltway Hotlanes
A $2 billion PPP financing involving a state grant, a TIFIA loan, and the first private activity bond issued in the U.S.
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I-595 Corridor Roadway Improvements
A $1.8 billion project using a TIFIA loan and senior bank debt to back the U.S.'s first application of availability payments.
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Intercounty Connector
A $2.6 billion financing involving toll revenue bonds, GARVEE bonds, state grants, and a TIFIA loan.
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Lake of the Ozarks Bridge
A $40 million project financed through a nonprofit transportation corporation under Missouri state law.
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Marquette Interchange
A $810 million urban highway improvement project financed through traditional FHWA funding and state match, shared 48/52 percent.
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President Bush Turnpike
A $1.5 billion project involving toll-backed bonds, right-of-way donations, local grants and the first Section 129 Loan in the U.S.
South Bay Expressway
This $635 million transaction was the first private PPP financing to include support from the TIFIA program.
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge
A $735 million DOT-sponsored, limited recourse, toll-backed revenue bond financing.
T-REX
This $1.67 billion multimodal project was financed with GARVEE bonds, FTA funding, and bonding from sales tax revenue.
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Woodrow Wilson Bridge
This $2.5 billion financing was a multi-state collaboration involving Federal, state, and District funding.
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Briefing Papers

The AASHTO Center for Excellence in Project Finance is pleased to announce the proposals accepted for the Transportation Finance Briefing Paper project:

Use of Advance Construction in Financing Transportation Projects - High Street Consulting Group
Using Performance Management Practices to Support Funding and Finance Initiatives - Cambridge Systematics

Upon completion, the briefing papers will be posted to the website in late June 2010.

Center Overview

Established in the 2005 SAFETEA-LU transportation authorization act, the mission of the AASHTO Center for Excellence in Project Finance (the Center) is to provide support to State Departments of Transportation in the development of finance plans and project oversight tools and to develop and offer training and state-of-the-art finance methods to advance transportation projects and leverage funding.

The Center provides four primary services:

Professional Education
Research Services
Technical Assistance
Information Dissemination

In addition to providing information about all of the Center's services and events, this website is the Center's primary vehicle for information dissemination, providing comprehensive information on aspects of project finance for transportation improvements.

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Center Events

2010 Wharton Transportation Executive Program
July 26-29, 2010
Intended for top public sector executives, WTEP emphasizes the critical role played by finance and studies its interrelationship with other related disciplines. Participating transportation leaders from the state, regional, and local levels will form a cadre of transportation finance thought-leaders who can accelerate the development of policies, adoption of techniques, and transformation of organizations. WTEP is a 3-day program that will be held once each year at WhartonÃ¢Â€Â™s state-of-the-art Steinburg Conference Center on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act) Listening Session
July 16, 2010
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) invites all capital market industry participants (borrowers, issuers, investment bankers, insurers, concessionaires, consultants, and attorneys) and State and local transportation officials to a listening session on innovative finance for surface transportation. Participants will present their perspectives on how Federal credit programs, to include TIFIA (the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program) and RRIF (the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program), could be enhanced so as to better support the delivery of surface transportation projects.

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