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Selected Resources

Additional sources of information on innovative financing techniques for transportation projects are available through a wide range of web sites, publications, and contacts.  These include general innovative financing resources and resources specific to each of the techniques described in this primer.

General Resources

Federal Highway Administration.  Innovative Finance Home Page.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/

Federal Highway Administration.  Innovative Finance Newsletter (October 1996 - June 1997) and Innovative Finance Quarterly (September 1997 - present).
www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/ifpubs.htm

Federal Highway Administration.  An Evaluation of the TE-045 Innovative Finance Research Initiative, October 1996.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/index.htm

National Cooperative Highway Research Program.  Innovative Financing Clearinghouse.
www.innovativefinance.org

Transportation Research Board, Transportation Finance for the 21st Century, Proceedings of a Conference, Dallas, Texas, April 23-25, 1997, 1997.

Federal Transit Administration.  "Innovative Finance Handbook." May 1996.
www.fta.dot.gov/library/ntl/budet.html

Federal Transit Administration.  "Innovative Finance Techniques for America's Transit Systems." September 1998.
www.fta.dot.gov/library/ntl/budet.html may 1996
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/sc313510.htm

Contacts:

Federal Highway Administration, Federal-Aid Financial Management Division
400 7th Street, S.W., Room 4313
Washington, DC  20590
(202) 366-0673

TIFIA Joint Program Office
400 7th Street, S.W., Room 4301
Washington, DC  20590
(202) 366-5785

Federal Highway Administration, Southern Resource Center
61 Forsyth Street, S.W., Suite 17T26
Atlanta, GA  30303
(404) 562-3680

Federal Highway Administration, Western Resource Center
210 Mission Street, Suite 2100
San Francisco, CA  94105
(415) 744-3102

Federal Highway Administration, Midwestern Resource Center
19900 Governors Drive, Suite 301
Olympia Fields, IL  60461
(708) 283-3513

Innovative Management of Federal Funds

Advance Construction/Partial Conversion of Advance Construction

Federal Highway Administration, Federal-Aid Policy Guide, Subpart G - Advance Construction of Federal-Aid Projects, May 25, 2000.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/fapg/cfr0630g.htm

Federal Highway Administration.  Guidance on Section 308: Advance Construction of Federal-aid Projects, May 1996.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/sc308510.htm

Tapered Match

Federal Highway Administration.  "Memorandum: Tapered Match on Federal-aid Projects." July 1999.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/tapered.htm

Inman, Max.  "Grant Management Techniques: Tapered Match May Provide a Better Fit."  Innovative Finance Quarterly (Summer/Fall 1999).
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/ifq52.htm, or http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/ifq52.pdf (pdf version)

Flexible Match

Federal Highway Administration.  Fact Sheet:  Federal Matching Flexibility, September 14, 1998.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/factsheets/matching.htm

Federal Highway Administration.  "Guidance on Section 322:  Third Party Donations of Funds, Materials, or Services for Federally Assisted Projects."  May 1996.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/sc322510.htm

Toll Credits

Federal Highway Administration.   "Memorandum: Toll Credit for Non-Federal Share, Section 1111(c) of TEA-21, Implementing Guidance." August 1998.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/tollcred.htm

Debt Financing

Federal Highway Administration.  GARVEE Bond Guidance.  August 2000.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/garguid1.htm

Credit Assistance

Section 129 Loans

Federal Highway Administration.  Guidance on Section 313(b) of the NHS Act:  Loan Provisions under Section 129(a)(7) of Title 23.  May 1996.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/ifg.htm

State Infrastructure Banks

Federal Highway Administration, SIB web site, including guidance and best practices.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/sib.htm

Federal Highway Administration.  State Infrastructure Bank Primer.  September 1997.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/sibprimr.htm

Federal Highway Administration.  FHWA Guidance for Administering the State Infrastructure Bank Pilot Program.  October 1997.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/guidance.htm

TIFIA

Federal Highway Administration.  TIFIA web site, including legislation and regulations, a program guide and application, TIFIA Times, and links to TIFIA credit enhancement projects.
http://tifia.fhwa.dot.gov/

Tolling

Tolling Federal-Aid Highways

Federal Highway Administration.  Guidance on Section 313(a) of the NHS Act:  Toll Facilities Under Section 129 of Title 23.  May 1996.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance/sc313510.htm

Interstate Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program

Federal Highway Administration.  "Memorandum:  Interstate Highway Reconstruction/Rehabilitation Pilot Program Section 1216(b) of TEA-21 Solicitation for Candidate Proposals," December 24, 1998.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/tollpilt.htm

Value Pricing Pilot Program

The State and Local Policy Program of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs within the University of Minnesota hosts a web page for the value pricing pilot program.
http://www.valuepricing.org

Federal Highway Administration.  Value Pricing Pilot Program web site, including program information, best practices, newsletters, reports, and outreach activities.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/13-hmpg.htm

Federal Highway Administration.  Value Pricing Pilot Program:  Notice of Grant Opportunities.  Updated March 2000.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/vppp.htm

U.S. Department of Transportation.  TEA 21, Value Pricing Pilot Program Fact Sheet.  September 1998.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/factsheets/valpr.htm