Many airports undertake stormwater projects to accommodate facility expansion, address obsolescence, and respond to evolving regulatory requirements. Often, stormwater infrastructure is installed or upgraded on a project-by-project and piecemeal basis, resulting in mismatches of sizes, material types, ages, and conditions. When airports are considering expanding or improving their stormwater fa...

An overview of direct and indirect subsidies available to maritime transportation is provided in Maritime Subsidies: Do They Provide Value for Money? , a report from the International Transport Forum. This report assesses whether they provide value for taxpayers’ money and offers recommendations how policymakers can increase the effectiveness of maritime subsidies.

Freight investment project prioritization, which is used to assist in planning and programming decisions, differs widely in importance across states. One of the reasons for the difference in importance is the fact that freight projects are costly, and state departments of transportation (DOTs) face limited resources to implement them. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Sy...

Global business and tourism depend heavily on the efficient operation of airports and movement of passengers, baggage, and cargo across many areas. With increasing demand and connectivity requirements for airports comes the need for more sophisticated simulation and modeling tools to validate design assumptions. Furthermore, airport design and planning decisions have significant impacts on poli...

Airports continually balance demands to improve infrastructure within the realities of available budgets. Green revolving funds (GRFs) offer an alternative approach for investing in projects that generate operational savings. These funds work by tracking verified cost reductions from implemented actions, and then transferring those savings to a reserve that provides capital for future qualified...

The possibility of unbundling user charges from contractor charges in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts is explored in Public-Private Partnerships in Transport: Unbundling Prices from User Charges , a report from the International Transport Forum. This report analyzes the benefits and challenges of unbundling user and contractor charges and defines a potential governance structure to p...

Although general aviation airports have historically been funded by federal, state, and local entities, the private sector is increasingly playing a larger role. This involvement has ranged on a continuum from service and management contracts to singular projects at airports that involve leasing mechanisms to long-term leases and the whole-scale private development of general aviation airports....

Public–private partnerships (P3s) can provide solutions to the project delivery challenges faced by state departments of transportation (DOTs) and local transportation agencies in delivering surface transportation infrastructure by aligning risks and rewards between public and private sectors, accelerating project delivery, improving operations and asset management, realizing construction and o...

The use of residential impact fees are analyzed in Residential Impact Fees in California , a report from the Terner Center at the University of Berkeley. The goal of this report is to offer policymakers a flexible way to finance necessary infrastructure.

Public-private partnerships and regulatory asset base are compared as methods of securing the funding of infrastructure projects in Infrastructure Funding: Does it Matter Where the Money Comes From? , a report from the International Transport Forum. This report considers whether the ability of the infrastructure operator to levy user charges is a necessary condition to obtain the apparent benef...