May 2, 2008

Ontario Airport Hilton

Please note that the PowerPoint presentations were converted to PDF files.

Alan Pisarski, alanpisarski.com

Why congestion is such a huge problem; underlying demographic and social changes; the horrendous economic cost to the region if congestion is not reduced significantly; the role of transit and need for increased roadway capacity.

Transportation Matters (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Asha Weinstein Agrawal, San Jose State University

The results of 2006 California voter survey showing relative degrees of support for toll roads verses other forms of revenue increases.

To Toll or Not To Toll:  What Do Californians Think?   (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Hasan Ikhrata, Executive Director, Southern California Association of Governments

Why toll roads will be necessary to supply needed capacity; limitations traditional funding.

Why Tolls Roads in the SCAG Region?  (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Bob Poole, Reason Foundation

What other states/urban regions are doing.

What Kinds of Toll/PPP Projects Are Being Done?  (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Steve Finnegan, Automobile Club of Southern California

Auto Club’s take on tolling and HOT lanes and alternatives

More Questions Than Answers (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Kent Olsen, Parsons Brinkerhoff

The basics of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs); observations on feasibility studies.

Public-Private Partnerships: New Options for Project Delivery (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Brennan Kidd, Lee Engineering

Cost-effectiveness of HOT lanes as both a highway and transit (BRT) solution.

Multimodal Optimization of Urban Freeway Corridors (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Martin Wachs, RAND

Focus on the importance of user-pays principle for highway finance; how we have drifted away from that in California in recent decades; how tolling historically was the first choice and should be again with electronic toll collection technologies; equity issues surrounding toll roads

Making Big Changes from Small Change (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)

 

Mark Watts, California Strategies

Prospects for enabling legislation.

Toll Roads in California: One Advocate's Perspective (PDF file of PowerPoint Presentation)