Proceedings of the Conference on Evaluating Alternative Local Transportation Financing Techniques

TRB Special Report 208: Proceedings of the Conference on Evaluating Alternative Local Transportation Financing Techniques is the proceedings of a conference to disseminate the results of current research on local transportation financing to an audience of local officials, planners, transportation managers, and financing specialists and to consider the issues associated with evaluating alternative financing techniques.

The conference's major topics were: ( 1) financial planning and its relationship to the urban transportation planning process; (2) revenue sources for financing local transportation; (3) financial planning techniques; and (4) packaging and implementing the financial plan. Some traditional alternative financing sources are user fees, nonuser fees, special benefit fees, private financing, debt financing, private property utilization, special revenues, and enhancing the revenue picture (e.g., contracting services, budget indexing, terminating execmptions, cash flow management). CONTENTS: Part 1: OVERVIEW; Part 2: PRESENTATIONS: 1-Case Study on Local Financing Techniques: Atlanta, Georgia; 2--Financial Elements of Urban Transportation Planning: Puzzling Over the Metropolitan Transportation Puzzle; 3--Case Study on Local Financing Techniques: Denver, Colorado; 4--Sources of Revenue for Local Transportation: What Are the Potentials and the Impediments? 5--Case Study on Local Financing Techniques: Portland, Oregon; 6--Financial Planning Techniques: What Elements Are Included in a Good Financial Plan? 7--Case Study on Local Financing Techniques: Buffalo, New York; 8--Packaging and Implementing a Financial Plan: Achieving Support, Consensus, and Consent; 9--UMTA's Perspective; 10--Evaluating Alternative Local Transportation Financing Techniques; 11--Research Needs Statement; 12--Research Needs Statement; Part 3: HYPOTHETICAL CASE STUDY; Part 4: WORKSHOP SUMMARIES: 13--Financial Planning Needs, Roles, and Relationships; 14--Revenue Sources; 15--Financial Planning Techniques; 16--Packaging and Implementing a Financial Plan; Appendix A: Workshop Topics Appendix B: Checklist of Revenue sources for Financing Local Transportation; Selected Bibliography; Participants; Steering Committee Biographical Information.