The full-day Transportation and Infrastructure Session will focus on “Reform, Market Access and Public/Private Innovative Finance” in three segments.Session Agenda
Truck Size and Weight Harmonization and Importance to Trade and Market Access- Jeff Marker, Freight Program Manager, Idaho Transportation Department
Part C: Leveraging new US and Canadian Infrastructure Funds with private sector partnershipsWith the passage of the 2015 FAST Act and the Omnibus Budget bill, there will be close to $3 Billion in discretionary grant funding available in the US for infrastructure projects while Northwest states have been awarded major “Tiger” grants. The Government of Canada through the Investing in Canada plan will double existing funding ($180B over 12 years) to
“create long term economic growth, support low carbon green economies and build inclusive communities”. Meanwhile, public private partnerships – more prevalent in Canada than the US - can bring private sector innovation, expertise, and capital while protecting public interest.
- Co-moderated by Leslie Blakely, President, Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors
- Marie-Claude Petit, Director General, Transportation Infrastructure Programs, Transport Canada
- Graham Sucha, MLA , Alberta Legislative Assembly
- Mark Romoff, Director, Canadian Council on Public Private Partnerships
- Traci Couture, District Director, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05)
More information about PNWER's Transportation Working Group:The Transportation and Infrastructure Working Groups focuses on the infrastructure of our major corridors and gateways, with a special interest on border infrastructure. Traditional funding mechanisms for large-scale infrastructure and transportation projects are challenged by the absence of resources to explore innovative procurement methods.
The PNWER Innovative Infrastructure Finance Taskforce promotes best practices for public-private infrastructure financing. Public-private partnerships, or P3s, are innovative financing models between governments and the private sector to build public infrastructure like roads, hospitals or schools, or to deliver services. Unlike traditional procurement arrangements, the public sector integrates all parts of a P3 project into one contract. The public sector owns the infrastructure and risk is spread between the private and public entities.
http://www.pnwer.org/infrastructure-finance.htmlClick here for the TVW broadcast of the event
