Toll Roads, Transportation Finance and Public-Private Partnerships

News & Journals

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• Privatization of transportation
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Books & Government Publications

State Library Catalog

We have purchased these books specifically to support research in this area:

• Street smart: competition, entrepreneurship, and the future of roads.  edited by Gabriel Roth ; foreword by Mary E. Peters.  New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, c2006.  Call # 388.1 S915    
  
• Financing transportation networks   David M. Levinson.  Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar Pub., c2002.  Call #   362.1 M987    
  
• 2010 and beyond : a vision of America's transportation future  [Lance R. Grenzeback...et. al.]  [Noblesville, IN] : Hudson Institute, 2004.  Call #  338.1 T974
• 21st Century Highways: Innovative Solutions to America's Transportation Needs.  Wendell Cox, Alan Pisarski & Ronald D. Utt.  Call # 388.1 T971

MOBIUS

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• Toll Roads—United States
• Toll Bridges—United States
• Urban Transportation—United States—Finance
• Transportation—United States—Finance
• Privatization and Transportation

e-Books

(These titles are freely available online)

• The fuel tax and alternatives for transportation funding --Transportation Research Board Special Report 285, (Chapter 5 addresses toll roads)
  
• Missouri toll feasibility study phase i  May 2002
  
• Highway finance: states’ expanding use of tolling illustrates diverse challenges and strategies. -- Government Accountability Office Report, June 2006
  
• Transportation finance: meeting the funding challenge today, shaping policies for tomorrow -- Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings 33 (Papers from the Third National Conference on Transportation Finance)
  
• United States Department of Transportation report to Congress on public-private partnerships.   December 2004
  
• Toll Facilities in the United States—Bridges-Roads-Tunnels-Ferries  -  Federal Highway Administration,  June 2005 (FHWA-PL-05-018, web only publication)

Web Resources

These online resources from authoritative sources offer freely available information:

• Resources in transportation finance and economics from the Transportation Research Board
  
• World Bank resources on toll roads and private sector involvement
  
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Tolling and Pricing Opportunities webpage
  
• FHWA Federal-Aid Highway Toll Facilities
  
• Innovativefinance.org, the American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials’ clearinghouse of information on surface transportation financing
  
• Enviromental Defense Fund publications on toll roads from an environmental perspective
  
• Publications on transportation and toll roads from the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit organization advocating free markets
  
• The International Bridge -  Tunnel and Turnpike Association has several toll-related resources on its website