Category: Events

The Center was a strategic partner of the ARTBA’s 27th Annual Conference on Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation, held July 15-17 in Washington D.C.

The Center sponsored the following two panels:

Ratings Agencies View on P3s – “A Look Behind the Curtain”

Moderator: Mike Kirk, Louis Berger

Panelists:  Scott Zuchorski, Fitch; Zoe Markwick, Skanska ID; Grant Headrick, DBRS

The Structural Evolution of P3s: Pros and Cons of DBFOMs, DBFs, DBMs and DBOMs

Moderator: Evan Caplicki, Nossaman

Panelists:  Grant Holland, CDM Smith; Russ Zapalac, TxDOT; Lowell Clary, Clary Consulting

Save the date for The Cameron Rian Hays “Outside the Box” Competition annual conference June 27 at the Mason School of Policy, Government and International Affairs. Follow us @GMUOutsideBox.

In June, Dr. Jonathan Gifford was asked to give a presentation at the National Governors Association’s Public-Private Partnership Retreat in Chicago. His presentation ensured that retreat participants had a common baseline of knowledge regarding P3 definitions, concepts, applications and models. Dr. Gifford also highlighted successful P3 projects and selected a few case studies to share. You can view his presentation here.

Hosted by the International Road Federation

Wednesday May 28th, 2014

Guest presentations by:
Laurie Schintler, Associate Professor at George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government and International Affairs and
Dr. Shanjiang Zhu, Assistant Professor of Transportation Planning and Engineering at George Mason University

Big Data in transportation has taken off, although the exact definition of this concept is still widely debated among researchers, practitioners, and government officials. Big Data usually refers to enormous volumes of information of diverse structures (or lack of structure) that cannot be analyzed using conventional relational databases and data mining techniques. Big Data for transportation can be generated by sources such as smartphones, digital photography, video monitoring systems, GPS, real-time control systems in automobiles, automatic vehicles, social media, etc.

The International Transport Forum (ITF) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will host a roundtable discussion entitled “Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure: Renegotiations, How To Approach Them And Economic Outcomes“ at the Center in October 2014. More than 20 invited experts will review the reasons for the renegotiations in P3’s as well as their potential impact on the economic outcomes of the existing and future projects. Experiences with renegotiations in different countries and the potential necessity of renegotiations in long contractual relationships will be discussed.

The International Transport Forum of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development asked Center staff to write a White Paper on U.S. experience with the renegotiation of P3s. The paper will be presented at an ITF Roundtable on P3 Renegotiation to be held in the Washington, D.C., area in October 2014.