Interdependence of Federal, State, and Local Transportation Funding and Ownership

NCHRP Research Report 1167: Interdependence of Federal, State, and Local Transportation Funding and Ownership presents a guide to help state departments of transportation (DOTs) navigate funding and financing interdependence. The guide outlines how these interdependences work, strategies to manage them, and the outcomes of the interdependences. It was developed based on extensive review of the state of the practice, engagement of the community of practice, and use cases. The information in the guide will be of immediate interest to policymakers and funding decision-makers. The findings will serve as a valuable resource for state DOTs and other public transportation agencies. Multimodal transportation infrastructure and services are built, owned, maintained, and operated by multiple levels of government and the private sector with a complex mix of interdependent funding and financing sources. This paradigm presents challenges for project development, operations, and service delivery. Navigating this complexity requires creative strategies to leverage all eligible resources. Research was needed to help transportation agencies assess the increasingly interdependent funding and financing options available to them. Under NCHRP Project 19-20, “Interdependence of Federal, State, and Local Transportation Funding and Ownership,” WSP USA Inc. was asked to develop a guide to help state DOTs and other public transportation agencies with funding and financing interdependence. The research included identifying strategies and developing use cases to address key findings on funding, policy, process, relationships, and temporal implications of funding interdependence. In addition to the guide published, the following materials are available at nationalacademies.org/publications by searching for NCHRP Research Report 1167: Interdependence of Federal, State, and Local Transportation Funding and Ownership: Appendix B: a research briefing presentation Appendix C: the use cases Appendix D: an implementation memo

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5160
• Supplemental Notes:
  • The final report is available at: https://doi.org/10.17226/29407.

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $449,970.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 19-20

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  State Departments of Transportation (participating member states of American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO))

  American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Managing Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Wadsworth, Trey

• Performing Organizations:

  WSP USA, Inc.

  Merrimack, New Hampshire   
• Principal Investigators:

  Perez, Benjamin

• Start Date: 20220929
• Expected Completion Date: 20250529
• Actual Completion Date: 20250529

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Federal government; Financing; Infrastructure; Local government; Local government agencies; Ownership; Revenues; State departments of transportation; State government
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01773429
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 19-20
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 28 2021 7:35PM