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Georgia’s Major Move: Preferred Bidder for SR400 Express Lanes

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has selected SR400 Peach Partners as the preferred bidder for the massive SR400 Express Lanes project. The project will develop barrier-separated express lanes along the majority of a 16-mile stretch of SR400 north of Atlanta, and operate the system under a 55-year revenue-risk concession. The procurement is the first […]

Financial Close for Calcasieu River Bridge Project

The replacement of the Calcasieu River Bridge is finally underway. In August, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) announced that its concessionaire for the bridge replacement P3, Calcasieu Bridge Partners (CBP), reached financial close on the $2.3 billion project. The successful financing is a win for the state and a rare recovery for […]

Reforming Environmental Litigation

The transportation community is well aware that opponents of major projects use litigation to challenge Environmental Impact Statements after they are issued. While Congress in recent years has enacted modest reforms regarding the time frame and page count of EISs, it has not considered any reforms that would limit the delays and costs imposed by […]

Texas Moving Forward with SH‐288 Concession Termination

In a series of moves in late July and August, the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDoT) confirmed its plans to terminate the concession for the SH-288 P3 in Houston. The state will pay concessionaire Blueridge Transportation Group approximately $1.73 billion for the concession buyout, and plans to take over operations of the express lanes in […]

Tennessee I‐24 Choice Lanes Public Consultation, Procurement Notice

At the end of August, Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) issued a Notice of Procurement for the I-24 Southeast Choice Lanes project.  The project, the first of its kind for the state, will span 26 miles of Interstate 24 between Nashville and Murfreesboro. State officials have identified the segment as the state’s busiest stretch of […]

RFQ For Chicago’s South Suburban Airport Project

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to potential developers for the South Suburban Airport (SSA) development project. The project is located in Will County, approximately 35 miles south of downtown Chicago. The airport development project has been a long time coming – the state originally authorized a P3 […]

Stakeholder Dynamics: Rethinking Roles and Responsibilities in User-Pay Transport PPP Projects

Original study by Gabriel Castelblanco & Jose Guevara This paper explores the important issue of stakeholder management strategies in user-pay PPP projects.  While extant literature often focuses on the interests of either responsible stakeholders (i.e., the PPP consortium and the contracting agency) or impacted stakeholders, this study addresses the critical but underexplored dynamics between diverse […]

High Frequency Rail to Test Progressive Model in Canada

Canada’s High Frequency Rail project, which will provide electrified passenger rail between Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, is expected to be the largest infrastructure project in the nation’s history. It will also be a major test of the progressive P3 model, which has remained fairly nascent in Canada despite becoming much more prevalent in the […]

How Profits, Rather than Politics, Became the Consensus on Thames Water

The British people have a right to be angry at the state of their water industry. And they certainly are. The industry featured heavily among voters in the UK’s recent election campaign, which resulted in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party. Things have only gotten worse for the industry, and Thames Water in particular, […]

Preparing Transportation for Federal Insolvency

Many transportation organizations seem to be assuming that the federal funding levels of the IIJA legislation will be the new baseline in the 2026 reauthorization of the Highway Trust Fund. For example, the American Society of Civil Engineers recently put out a report claiming that not renewing IIJA would cost the U.S. economy $637 billion […]