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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday,
May 12 from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm and Thursday, May 13 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
SCAG
Main Office
818
West 7th Street, 12th Floor
Los
Angeles, CA 90017-3435
Telephone:
(213) 236-1800
Map & Directions to SCAG Main Office
Michael
Avery
Phone:
916-498-5038
E-Mail:
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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 |