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Funding and Finance

Category: Funding and Finance

FHWA Innovative Finance

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Innovative Finance website provides information on innovative finance tools available to fund surface transportation projects. Click here to view this website.

Improved Transportation through Statewide Collaboration

On April 25, 2013, the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation held the Rural Planning Organizations (RPO) America Peer Symposium in Greenville, SC.  This event was sponsored by

VMT-based Transportation Funding Options Studied

As states across the nation are considering proposals for transportation funding within their borders, two new reports are considering vehicle-miles-traveled-based user fees as one option.  The Government Accountability Office released

Infrastructure Financing for Transit-Oriented Development

A new EPA report, Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development, provides examples of how some communities are using specific tools for individual infrastructure components, as well as strategies for combining

TRB Reports on Transit Cost-Sharing

The Transportation Research Board released two reports related to human services transportation in 2011.   The Transportation Services Cost Sharing Toolkit, which is Volume 1 of the Transit Cooperative Research Program

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