FHWA’s webinars on value capture strategies detail best practices collected from across the nation. These webinars feature subject matter experts and peers who have successfully utilized value capture in tandem with innovative finance and project delivery techniques to advance new and modernized infrastructure projects.
The recordings and presentations from these webinars are organized below by funding and financing techniques.
(01/19/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (01/19/23), Presentation Slides (01/19/23)
This webinar details core value capture categories—including developer contributions, transportation utility fees, special assessment districts, tax increment financing, joint development, concessions, and naming rights—and demonstrates how these revenues can be leveraged alongside federal tools like GARVEE bonds, TIFIA loans, and state infrastructure banks to satisfy matching-share requirements.
(08/16/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (08/16/23), Presentation Slides (08/16/23)
Value capture is a set of powerful funding tools that is gaining in popularity to supplement traditional funding sources. Funding for streets, highways, and transit is provided by the joint efforts of Federal, state, and local governments; taxation and user fees are the primary revenue sources, along with supplemental methods including loans, bonds, public-private partnerships, and concessions. All the value capture strategies involve some degree of financial risks since they rely on large enough increments in property value being created to provide adequate revenue. Implementing agencies should take the time to understand and assess national and regional trends in the real estate market, including the unique characteristics of the market at and around the transportation facility.
Read the associated document, Understanding Value Capture Risks: A Primer.
(12/20/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (12/20/23)
This webinar showcases the extensive collection of FHWA tools, guidance, and educational materials designed to help public agencies implement value capture mechanisms. The presentation highlights the critical need for alternative funding sources to address aging infrastructure, rising freight and pedestrian demands, and federal trust fund shortfalls. The speakers outline the full lifecycle of value capture implementation—from initial feasibility and nexus studies to district creation and debt financing—while detailing key analytical and reference tools.
(10/06/21)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (10/06/21), FAQs (10/06/21)
Presentation slide decks:
This webinar explores how public agencies can construct, evaluate, and justify value capture strategies to fund major transportation infrastructure and support sustainable community growth. The webinar details the foundational lifecycle of value capture, focusing on early stakeholder engagement, transparent nexus studies, regulatory alignment, and qualitative/quantitative lifecycle cash-flow assessments. Experts share best practices for structuring performance-driven, transparent municipal incentives; discuss market, fiscal, legal, and political risk mitigation; and provide global and regional perspectives on zoning, density bonuses, and value creation tools.
Read the associated document, Making the Business and Economic Case for Value Capture: A Primer.
(06/20/19)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (06/20/19), Presentation Slides (06/20/19)
This capacity building webinar explores how state and local transportation agencies can utilize value capture mechanisms as part of an innovative financing mix to address highway funding shortfalls, accelerate project delivery, and fund critical infrastructure. The presentation lays out the economic rationale for value capture, distinguishes funding from financing, and surveys seven core value capture techniques–ranging from developer impact fees and transportation utility fees to tax increment financing and asset recycling. Experts share examples of how commercial property owners self-tax through a community improvement district in Metro Atlanta and how Texas Transportation Reinvestment Zones capture property tax increments for transportation investments.
(11/19/19)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (11/19/19), Presentation Slides (11/19/19)
This webinar introduces the Value Capture Implementation Manual, FHWA’s comprehensive guide designed to help state and local agencies address critical funding shortfalls and advance transportation projects. The presentation details six major categories of value capture, including developer contributions, transportation utility fees, special assessment districts, tax increment financing, joint development, and naming rights. Through real-world case studies like the Denver E-470, the Atlanta BeltLine, and Columbus’s Cap at Union Station, the speakers demonstrate how value capture can generate 20 to 50 percent of a project’s capital costs, creating sustainable, local revenue streams to complement traditional federal and state funding.
Tapping Value Capture Strategies to Improve Aging Infrastructure and Spur Economic Development
(02/09/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (02/09/23), Presentation Slides (02/09/23)
Utilize value capture to monetize the future new property tax and economic activities revenues to supplement funding needed for rebuilding aging infrastructure. The four value capture techniques best suited for this type of project are tax increment financing, special assessment districts, development impact fees, and development agreements.
(06/07/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (06/07/23), Presentation Slides (06/07/23)
The capital improvement program or plan (CIP) is the primary means available to local governments for communicating their vision and infrastructure investment strategy to private investors, taxpayers, and the community at large. The CIP is a tool that encourages private entities to make place-based investments that incidentally help local governments achieve desired growth and development outcomes. Most states mandate that a CIP, approved by the governing body, be in place before value capture impact fees, assessments, and tax incremental finance revenue techniques can be imposed.
This webinar explains why CIPs are valuable by highlighting principles, community outcomes, and experiences from practitioners.
Read the associated document, Capital Improvement Programming: Using Value Capture to Fund Transportation Improvements: A Primer.
(05/17/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (05/17/23), Presentation Slides (05/17/23)
Value capture incremental growth strategies enable the states and locals to invest in transportation infrastructure and other improvements and pay for them by capturing the future increase in property tax revenues generated from the new development.
The webinar features experts who have successfully implemented tax allocation districts and transportation reinvestment zones to share their experiences through case studies.
(04/26/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (04/26/23), Presentation Slides (04/26/23)
Transportation reinvestment zones (TRZs) are an innovative and powerful value capture technique to generate funding for transportation projects by capturing and leveraging the economic growth associated with transportation infrastructure investments. A TRZ allows a city or county to designate a geographic area around a proposed transportation project and capture the incremental property tax and sales tax revenues generated in the area for use in funding the development of that project.
This webinar explains TRZs and how they help communities narrow funding gaps while accelerating the delivery of critically needed transportation projects.
Read the associated document, Transportation Reinvestment Zones: Using Value Capture to Fund Transportation Capital Improvements: A Primer.
(06/28/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (06/28/23), Presentation Slides (06/28/23)
This webinar shares what a special assessment district is, how it works, and where it is used, and contains case studies showcasing real-world examples. Featured are state and local exports who share practical experiences in implementing special assessment districts.
Read the associated document, Primer on Special Assessment Districts.
(04/05/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (04/05/23), Presentation Slides (04/05/23)
A transportation utility fee (TUF)—also known as a street maintenance fee, road user fee, or street utility fee—is an important tool for funding repair and maintenance to preserve streets, upgrading sidewalks and adding or improving pedestrian safety features and curbs, and complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
This webinar provides practical information on what TUFs are and examples of how municipalities use them in Texas, Utah, and Oregon. It also provides points for consideration when thinking about instituting a TUFs program, such as the favorability of the legal and regulatory environment for TUFs, as well as whether and how TUFs can be used for financing.
Read the associated document, Transportation Utility Fees: Maintaining Local Roads, Trails, and Other Transportation: A Primer.
(12/06/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (12/06/23)
This webinar explains what advertising, naming rights, and sponsorships are and how they serve as an innovative financing strategy. Experts from highway and transit modes share how they have implemented these strategies and their benefits.
(10/18/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (10/18/23), Presentation Slides (10/18/23)
Asset recycling is the long-term leasing of aging existing facilities to well-qualified private partners to "recycle" the infrastructure. The webinar hosts professionals to discuss practices for asset recycling, benefits, and methods.
(03/15/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (03/15/23), Presentation Slides (03/15/23)
Local governments can utilize developer impact fees and alternative fee-based structures to fund essential public infrastructure and manage community growth. Led by Dr. Rafael Aldrete of the Texas A&M University System, this webinar examines the legal and economic foundations of impact fees, legal nexus and rough proportionality requirements, fee structuring, and implementation steps. Case studies from Tampa, Florida, and Washoe County, Nevada, illustrate real-world applications, highlighting multimodal mobility fee systems, regional road impact fee programs, credit and waiver mechanisms, and strategies for balancing revenue needs with development incentives.
Read the associated document, Development Impact Fees and Other Fee-Based Development Charges: A Primer.
(07/19/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (07/19/23), Presentation Slides (07/19/23)
The most common joint development arrangements are right-of-way use agreements, which includes air space development ground leases, cost sharing arrangements, and incentive agreements. This webinar features experts from state and local authorities to share their experiences in leveraging underutilized right of way.
(09/14/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (09/14/23), Presentation Slides (09/14/23)
This webinar provides practical information for implementing development agreements like a community benefit agreement, joint development agreement, and other contract-based techniques. It includes overviews of these techniques, processes involved in implementing them, their role in key value capture opportunities and challenges, as well as real-world case examples of when and how best they can be used.
Read the associated document, Development Agreements and Other Contract-Based Value Capture Techniques: A Primer.
(02/22/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (02/22/23), Presentation Slides (02/22/23)
Project bundling has proven success and happens across agencies. States may lead bundled projects with local agency participation or local agencies may bundle projects with other local agencies.
This webinar features experts on how innovative finance approaches are used to advance bridge/project bundling projects. Learn about how smaller projects can be effectively bundled together to create projects that are more attractive to bidders, meet Federal requirement thresholds, quickly improve the infrastructure condition, expedite project delivery, reduce costs, and improve contracting efficiency.
(11/14/23)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (11/14/23), Presentation Slides (11/14/23)
This webinar discusses the connection between municipal bonds and value capture strategies. Speakers discuss basic requirements for issuing a bond, rules and regulations that govern tax-exempt and taxable bonds, major players involved in a bond transaction, and the roles and responsibilities of both public- and private-sector participants.
(05/12/21)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (05/12/21), FAQs (05/12/21)
Presentation slide decks:
This webinar explores how public agencies can integrate state and county state infrastructure bank (SIB) programs with value capture strategies to close transportation funding gaps, leverage non-federal revenues, and accelerate project delivery. The session provides a foundational overview of value capture mechanisms and explains how SIBs function as revolving loan funds to provide low-interest financing and flexible debt structuring. Guest speakers detail distinct implementation models in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Missouri.
(06/09/21)
Webinar materials: Webinar Recording (06/09/21), FAQs (06/09/21), Presentation Slides (06/09/21)
This webinar explores how public agencies can integrate value capture mechanisms with public-private partnerships (P3s) to fund, design, construct, operate, and maintain major transportation and infrastructure projects. The session contrasts value capture as a core funding source with P3s as a risk-sharing project delivery method. Three featured presenters share distinct case studies from Texas, Maryland, and Colorado.
