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Blue Ribbon Panel - Members, Schedule, Agendas, Presentations to Panel, Meeting Minutes.
DBE Supportive Services program Mission 360° – Business Opportunity and Workforce Development (BOWD)
The documents below are listed in order of importance and relevance to the issues the Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation Funding will discuss. They begin with a recent study on the funding issue as it applies to Rhode Island, and continue with recent documents by AASHTO and a national commission founded to study and recommend solutions to the problem.
Rhode Island at the Crossroads – A RIPEC Public Policy Issues Brief 2004
Available here
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) website on Transportation Investment and Financing
Available here
Transportation for Tomorrow - National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission Final Report (December 2007)
Available here
State Policy Options for Funding Transportation - National Governor’s Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices (February 2007)
Available here
Current Trends and Emerging Issues in Surface Transportation Finance - Gary Maring, Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (July 26, 2006)
Available here
Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs - Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Mercator Advisors, Alan E. Pisarski, Martin Wachs (December 2006)
Available here
Transportation Finance in Massachusetts: An Unsustainable System
Available here
The Crisis in State Transportation Finance: Lessons Learned from the New Jersey Experience
Available here
Putting the Trust Back in the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund
Available here
AD HOC Committee on Transportation Finance: Report to the Denver Regional Council of Governments
Available here
Colorado Blue Ribbon Panel on Transportation Finance and Implementation Website
Available here
Colorado Blue Ribbon Panel on Transportation Finance and Implementation Final Report
Available here
A Quiet Crisis in Transportation Finance Options for Texas
Available here
A Report of the Intergovernmental Forum on Transportation Finance Convened by the National Academy of Public Administration on behalf of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Consortium
Available here
