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Funding & Grants Events Innovative Financing Workshop for Ohio Transportation Ohio Transportation Leadership Forum 
Innovative Financing Workshop for Ohio Transportation June 5, 2008 at The Columbus, A Renaissance Hotel Ohio’s businesses and workers depend upon our transportation system to be safe and dependable. However, we are facing a funding crisis for key transportation initiatives. The Innovative Financing Workshop for Ohio Transportation gave us insightful information as we move forward with the challenges ahead in transportation funding. We learned and discussed: - What is innovative financing and how can it benefit Ohio?
- How can Ohio’s 21st Century Transportation Priorities Task Force address state and local funding needs?
- What are the legislative implications of these new financing tools?
- How does Ohio’s conversation fit with federal transportation funding reauthorization?
Guest speakers included (click linked names for that speaker's presentation): | | Ohio Senator Steve Stivers
Jolene Molitoris, Assistant Director, Ohio Department of Transportation
Gene McCormick, Senior Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff
David Earley, Director of Strategic Consulting, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Lisa Fenner, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Steve Stanley, Executive Director, Montgomery County Transportation Improvement District
Michael DiPerna, Managing Director, Robert W. Baird & Co.
David A. Rogers, Partner, Bricker & Eckler LLP
Tim Heilmeier, P.E., Vice President, HNTB Corporation
Gary Groat, Director, Project Development, Fluor Corporation
Thomas W. Pelnik III, P.E., Director, Innovative Project Delivery Division, Virginia Department of Transportation (see also this paper)
Chris L. Connelly, Associate, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (see also this outline) Paul F. Hanley, AICP, Director, Transportation Policy Research and Associate Professor, the University of Iowa and Arthur P. Baines, Principal - Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP were unable to attend due to flight cancellations. Their presentations are linked here: Hanley and Baines. |
Ohio Transportation Leadership Forum March 19, 2008
Presented by MORPC
Hyatt on Capitol Square Businesses and workers depend on our transportation system to be safe and dependable. However, funding for key transportation projects are dwindling throughout the country. Local, national, and state policy makers and transportation officials met at the Ohio Transportation Leadership Forum to address future transportation infrastructure needs and learn new ways of filling transportation funding gaps. Speakers: - Ben Ritchey, Vice President, Transportation, Battelle
- James G. Beasley, P.E., P.S., Director, Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)
- Brian Pallasch, Managing Director, Government Relations and Infrastructure Initiatives, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Jack Basso, Chief Operating Officer and Business Development Director, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
- Jack Schenendorf, Vice Chair, National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
- Fred Abousleman, Executive Director, National Association of Regional Councils (NARC)
- U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich
- Janet Kavinoky, Director of Transportation Infrastructure, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Executive Director, Americans For Transportation Mobility, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Anne P. Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Project
Click on a link below to check out their presentations. Ben Ritchey's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (2MB)
James Beasley's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (1.3MB)
Brian Pallasch's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (1.3MB)
Jack Basso's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (0.7MB)
Jack Schenendorf's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (0.3MB)
Fred Abousleman's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (0.4MB)
Anne Canby's PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (0.6MB)
Sponsors of the Ohio Transportation Leadership Forum: HNTB Corporation Central Ohio Transit Authority
Kokosing Construction Co.
Norfolk Southern Corp. Columbus Regional Airport Authority | HDR | Jacobs Edwards and Kelcey | TranSystems ACEC Ohio, Burgess & Niple, CH2M HILL, DLZ, Flexible Pavements of Ohio, Gannett Fleming, Gresham, Smith and Partners, Hatch Mott MacDonald, The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc., M·E Companies, Stantec, W.E. Stilson Consulting Group, Tetra Tech
National Association of Regional Councils, WTS Columbus
Contact Nick Gill, PE - Assistant Director - 614.233.4151
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