Second National Conference on Transportation Finance

TRB Conference Proceeding 24: Second National Conference on Transportation Finance examines legislative developments since the 1998 enactment of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century,the implementation of state and local programs that did not even exist at the time of the first conference (April 1997), and matters for consideration in the 2003 reauthorization of the nation's highway and transit programs. Conference sessions covered issued such as  approaches to measuring the costs and benefits of selected financing strategies to real-world examples of public-private partnerships, contracts and franchise agreements that may include not only design and construction services but also financing, operations, and maintenance.