Webinar Alert – Talking Operations: How to Implement a Congestion Pricing Project: Alternate Delivery Models
Date: July 7, 2010, from 3:00-4:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers:
- Lisa Castaneda, P.E., Harris County (TX) Toll Road Authority
- Paul A. Lampley, P.E., Florida DOT District Four
This Webinar, will examine two different models for deploying congestion pricing projects. Lisa Castaneda, P.E., of the Harris County (TX) Toll Road Authority will discuss the new I-10/Katy Freeway.
The Katy Toll way/Managed Lanes is the first multi-lane electronic tollway in the Nation with full design standards, and it was developed through a public-private partnership. Additionally, Paul A. Lampley, P.E., of Florida DOT District Four, will discuss how Availability Payments were used to finance the upgrade of a 10.5-mile segment of I-595 between I-75/Sawgrass Expressway and I-95 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Similar in concept to pass-through tolls, availability payments are a means of compensating a private concessionaire for its responsibility to design, construct, operate, and/or maintain a tolled or non-tolled roadway for a set period of time.