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Funding US Infrastructure
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Infrastructure is not free
“You can pay me now
or pay me later”
Fram Oil Filter Man
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Transportation
Wheel of Fortune
Toll Old Roads
Gas Tax
Motor Vehicle
Fees
Monetization
Congestion Tax
Toll New Roads
PPP
GPS
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Highway Constituency
The average driver in the US:
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travels 13,600 miles per year
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average gas mileage of 19.6 mpg
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purchases 706 gallons of gas/year
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cost of 1 penny on gas tax =
$7.06 PER ANNUM
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Cost to Drive
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IRS Cost Study allows 58.5 cents per mile in 2008 or a total of
$7,605 per annum for an average driver
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An average driver, at 13,000 miles per year, pays less than $400 per
year for the right to expect paved and well maintained roads
statewide (Ohio example)
Per Annum
Per Mile
State Gas Tax
$182.00
1.4 cents
Federal Gas Tax
$130.00
1.0 cents
Drivers License
$ 24.00
0.18 cents
Vehicle Registration
$ 34.50
0.27cents
Total
$370.50
2.85 cents
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Tolls or Taxes?
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Drivers readily spend thousands of dollars a year
on their cars, maintenance and insurance but balk
at use based gas taxes to rebuild the roads they
are riding
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Cost to average driver of 10 cent increase in gas
tax would be $70 per year
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10 cent gas tax increase would fund $6 Billion in
capital investment in a state like Ohio
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Gas Tax vs. Tolls
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Assuming a car gets 20 MPG and the gas tax is 26
cents the cost is 1.4 cents per mile
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The cheapest toll roads in the country cost more
than 5 cents per mile
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In Texas new toll roads are being priced at 14
cents plus per mile
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Indiana Toll Road Revisited
Leveraging the Gas Tax
Annual Cost of $3.8 Billion in Leverage
$195 Million
Gas Purchased by Average Driver
706 gallons/year
Indiana Drivers
6,000,000 Licensed
Value of 1 cent in Gas Tax
$
Gas Tax Increase Needed
$
0.046
Cost to Average Driver
$
32.50 PER ANNUM
42 Million
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Indiana Toll Road PPP
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Gave up 75 years of revenue for 10 years of
capital funding
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Provided non-compete for 75 years
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Car toll will rise from $4.65 to over $145 over the
full 75 years and perhaps as much as $400
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Excess revenues go to corporate profits not the
transportation network
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So what is the “Public Interest”?
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Protect overall transportation system
• Minimize siphoning for private
profits
• Maximize recycling of positive
cash flows
Assure reasonable user costs
• Oversight of toll escalation
factors
• Protect against congestion on
free road alternatives
Transparency
• No rushed deals
• Open and public process
• Full disclosure of costs to
users
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Advantages of PPP
 Actual
• Accelerated Delivery
• Risk Transfer
• Potential Operating Benefit
 Political
• Upfront Dollars
• Offloading of responsibilities for
operations and toll increases
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Disadvantages of PPP
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Cost of Capital produces less value
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Control of public roadways is surrendered
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Control of future economic development is
impacted
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Loss of dollars for transportation system
• Texas SH121- $2 billion, captured the
Public Ownership Dividend
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Availability Payments
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Really means it is an unfeasible project based on
tolling model
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No more than a performance management
contract for an asset that rarely underperforms
when publically run
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States are really entering into a long term annual
payment no different than bonding for the road
and owning it themselves
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Concept is based on electric utility production, in
reality roads are rarely “off-line”
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The Future Environment for PPP
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Public monetization's produce more dollars than
private monetization's and keep all dollars in the
public transportation network – Texas SH121
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Overreaching in terms of leverage leads to
failure – New Jersey
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Public is now focused on cost to user of
monetization rather than just upfront benefit –
Chicago Parking
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Monetization is really a corridor tax on toll users
to pay for other non toll roads
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PPP Lessons since 2006
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Public capital availability is not an
issue
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Investors accept and respect US
public enterprise toll roads
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Public Toll roads will aggressively
raise tolls
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Build America Bonds proves
corporate market
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Tax exempt market still deep
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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP DIVIDEND
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What is the Future of PPP?
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Very viable for project acceleration
through a design/build approach
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Very viable for risk transfer for
difficult or troubled projects –
Miami Port Tunnel, Colorado NW
Pkwy.
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Not desirable for financing or
concession approach due to high
cost of equity capital
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And now lack of high leverage low
cost debt to blend down capital
costs
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