• The Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy recently provided an independent review of the report “Measuring the Cost of Project Labor Agreements on School Construction in California” prepared by the Institute for Policy Research of the National University System. To access this report, click here.
  
  
• SPECIAL REPORT 303: EQUITY OF EVOLVING TRANSPORTATION FINANCE MECHANISMS. The Empirical Research on the Social Equity of Gas Taxes, Emissions Fees, and Congestion Charges.
  2009. By Lisa Schweitzer, University of Southern California
  Paper prepared for the Committee on the Equity Implications of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms, Transportation
  Research Board
  
  
• The Forum on Funding and Financing Solutions for Surface Transportation in the Coming Decade: Conference Report
  (1.49 MB, PDF) Janaury 2011. ASHTO Center for Excellence in Project Finance
  
  
• The Problem of Being Special: Special Assessment Districts and the Financing of Infrastructure in California (55 KB, PDF)

           May 2008. By Vladimir Kogan and Mathew D. McCubbins

• The Proposed California Transportation Finance Authority: An Analysis of AB 3021 (231 KB, PDF)

           May 2008. By Louise Nelson Dyble

• Options and Opportunities: New Management Paradigms for Balboa Park (605 KB, PDF)
  December 2007. By Richard G. Little, Louise Nelson Dyble, and Tamara Gishri
• Financial Planning Charrette 710/210 Tunnel Connection (146 KB, PDF)       
  December 5, 2007. By Louise Nelson Dyble                                                                                                
• Protecting the Public Interest: The Role of Long-Term Concession Agreements for Providing Transportation Infrastructure (342 KB, PDF) June 2007. By Jeffrey N. Buxbaum and Iris N. Ortiz
• The Impacts of Design-Build on the Public Workforce (408 KB, PDF)
  April 2007. By Douglas D. Gransberg and Keith R. Molenaar
• Faith in Reason: Voter Competence and Local Bond Propsitions (48 KB, PDF)
  January 2007.By Elizabeth Garrett and Mathew D. McCubbins
  
• California Homeowners' Growing Stake in Infrastructure and the Future (89 KB, PDF)
  April 2006. By Dowell Myers, John Pitkin and Julie Park
• Funding Innovations for California Infrastructure:  Promises and Pitfalls (142 KB, PDF)
  March 2006. By Ellen Hanak and Kim Rueben
• Funding California's Future: Options for Leveraging the Proceeds of SB 1024 (480 KB, PDF)
  February 9, 2006. By Richard G. Little
• Financing Civil Infrastructures: Is There a Role for Private Capital Markets?
  July 20, 2005. By Richard G. Little
• Using Regional Economic Models To Estimate The Costs Of Infrastructure Failures: The Cost Of A Limited Interruption In Electric Power In The Los Angeles Region
  April 2005
• The Alameda Corridor: A White Paper
  June 2004
• Managing California's Highways: The Next Step
  April 2, 2004 - by Peter Gordon, School of Policy, Planning, and Development
• Initiatives in Transportation Funding & Finance
  March 17, 2004 - Report and Recommendations to Sunne Wright McPeak, Secretary, Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, State of California                                                                      

• Protecting the Public Interest: The Role of Long-Term Concession Agreements for Providing Transportation Infrastructure (26 KB, PDF)
  June 2007
• The Impacts of Design-Build on the Public Workforce (22 KB, PDF)
  April 2007
• Faith in Reason: Voter Competence and Local Bond Propsitions (26 KB, PDF)
  January 16, 2007
• California Homeowners’ Growing Stake in Infrastructure and the Future (27 KB, PDF)
  April 10, 2006
• Funding Innovations for California Infrastructure:Promises and Pitfalls (27KB, PDF)
  April 6, 2006                                            

Conference Material

1. Agenda: Paying for Tomorrow's Infrastructure
2. After the Gas Tax Runs Dry

          March 2008 - Martin Wachs, Director, Trransportation, Space and Technology, RAND Corporation

1. Funding and Meeting Water Infrastructure Needs

          March 2008 - Ellen Hanak, Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

1. Financing School Infrastructure in California: Past, Present and Future

          March 2008 - Eric J. Brunner, Department of Economics, Quinnipiac University

1. Transportation Taxes and Fees: Surveying Public Opinion in California

          March 2008 - Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University

1. Tolls R Us

          March 2008 - Steve Heminger, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission

1. Private Communities and Infrastructure

          March 2008 - Peter Gordon, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

1. Sustainable Financing and Sustainable Management

          March 2008 - Michael A. Pagano, Professor of Public Administration and Interim Dean of the College of Urban Planning

          and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

1. Improving California's Infrastructure Services: The California Infrastructure Intiative (CII)

          March 2008 - David E. Dowall, Director, Institute of Urban amd Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley