Speaker Series - In Partnership with George Mason University

Description

“Public-Private Partnerships and the Future of Northern Virginia Transportation”

Northern Virginia has been one of the most active areas in the U.S. for the use of public-private partnerships (P3s) to deliver highway expansion and renewal projects. The region has three major express lane projects: I-495, I-95, and the new lanes on I-66 opening this fall that serve Prince William County. These three projects are responsible for the bulk of the new highway capacity delivered in the region in the 21st century. There is a longer history of P3 projects in the region as well: Dulles Greenway and Route 28.

Jonathan Gifford will speak about the delivery of these three projects. How does NoVa stand out from the rest of the U.S. in the use of P3s? Where is the region, the Commonwealth, and nation headed in using this form of infrastructure delivery? What are its strengths? Its limitations? Its pitfalls?

Dr. Gifford directs George Mason University’s Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy. The Center supports research, education, and outreach to support broader understanding of the use of the P3 delivery approach. The Center is housed within Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government.

He is an internationally recognized authority on transportation and public policy. He directs Mason’s Center for Transportation Public Private Partnerships Policy and has written widely on transportation funding, finance, the Interstate Highway System, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation and land use, technological standardization, and information systems strategic planning. He has more than 30 years of experience in research and teaching in transportation and public policy. Areas of interest include public private partnerships, infrastructure banks, secondary road policy, transportation planning and urban development, environmental impact, and decision making. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. in transportation engineering (minor fields in economics and urban planning) from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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