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Especially for those in Southern California...Free Financing Freight Improvements Training on May 12-13, 2010 FHWA is hosting a 1 ½ day workshop designed to raise awareness of funding and financing options for multimodal freight improvements. Southern California Council of Governments (SCAG) is providing the facilities for this no cost workshop. Additional workshop details are provided below. Financing Freight Improvements The Financing Freight Improvements Workshop is a 1 ½-day workshop designed to raise awareness of funding and financing options for multimodal freight improvements and provide an array of examples in successful financing of freight projects by state DOTs, MPOs, local agencies, and private entities. The workshop is based in FHWA's Financing Freight Improvements Guidebook, which is a compilation of existing funding and financing tools, and case studies of recent successful projects, covering a wide range of project types, project size, and locations. Workshop Goal The workshop goal is to raise awareness of and establish applied knowledge toward funding and financing tools that could support freight improvements among practitioners that may not be familiar with these tools. The workshop will provide examples in successful financing of freight projects by State DOTs, MPOs, local agencies, and private entities. Workshop Outcomes The Financing Freight Improvements workshop provides an introduction to freight finance funding sources and financing tools and introduces successful creative funding solutions. The workshop provides participants with resources necessary to successfully address freight in the state and metropolitan planning processes. The workshop should be delivered in such as way that it motivates participants to improve the ways by which freight financing issues and needs are incorporated into their planning and programming process. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to: · Identify existing funding and financing tools that could support the implementation of freight investments. · Identify the full range of stakeholders (including public and private entities) that are involved in freight financing. · Describe how freight improvements have been implemented in the past through public sector (including Federal, state, and local government) participation. · Describe how the public sector can lead efforts to finance freight improvements with public sector resources. Workshop Instructors Iris N. Ortiz is a Senior Associate with Cambridge Systematics and has almost 10 years of experience in transportation finance. She developed both the FHWA Financing Freight Improvements guidebook and workshop for FHWA, and has been a co-instructor for the workshop since its inception. A FHWA Instructor will also instruct the course. Workshop Dates and Times Wednesday, May 12 from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm and Thursday, May 13 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Workshop Location SCAG Main Office 818 West 7th Street, 12th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017-3435 Telephone: (213) 236-1800 Map & Directions to SCAG Main Office <http://www.scag.ca.gov/contact/pdf/scagmapdirections.pdf> Space is Limited to 30 Participants RSVP Michael Avery Phone: 916-498-5038 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Workshop Agenda May 12, 2010 (DAY 1) Time Agenda Item Length 1:00 - 2:00 Lesson 1: Workshop Introduction 60 minutes 2:00 - 2:15 Break 15 minutes 2:15 - 3:15 Lesson 2: Federal Aid Highway Program Financing, Part 1 60 minutes 3:15 - 3:30 Break 15 minutes 3:30 - 4:30 Lesson 3: Federal Aid Highway Program Financing, Part 2 DAY 1 Summary/Wrap-up 60 minutes May 13, 2010 (DAY 2) Time Agenda Item Length 8:30 - 9:15 DAY 1 Review Lesson 3: Federal Aid Highway Program Financing, Part 2 (cont.) 45 minutes 9:15 - 10:45 Lesson 4: Other Federal Funding Sources and U.S. DOT Federal Financing Tools 90 minutes 10:45 - 11:00 Break 15 minutes 11:00 - 12:00 Lesson 5: Breakout Session: Other Federal Funding Sources and Financing Tools Group Activity 60 minutes 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 60 minutes 1:00 - 2:30 Lesson 6: Non-Federal Funding Methods and Financing Tools 90 minutes 2:30 - 2:45 Break 15 minutes 2:45 - 3:30 Lesson 7: Breakout Session - Group Exercise (Part 1) 45 minutes 3:30 - 3:45 Break 15 minutes 3:45 - 4:30 Lesson 7: Group Discussion/Wrap-up (Part 2) 45 minutes Workshop Hosts