The Coalition

• The Coalition was created in 2002 because the current traditional method of designing, financing, and building and maintaining roads in this nation is not keeping pace with the growing demand for mobility, freight movement and economic development.
    
• Focused on the reauthorization of TEA-21, our purpose is to explore innovative financing and performance based contracting methods and to advocate the removal of obstacles while providing incentives for innovative approaches.
     
• Our goal is quite simply to deliver higher quality transportation projects faster while saving taxpayer dollars.
     
• We will accomplish our goal by helping policy makers in Congress, the agencies, and across the states to understand the value that can be gained by coupling innovative financing with innovative contracting methods.
     
• Our Coalition members include project management firms, construction and manufacturing companies, financial services firms, and think tanks that understand the value in finding new solutions that will result in more effective and more efficient road construction and maintenance at a lower cost to taxpayers. Many of our members have been involved with projects that are highlighted in the Battelle study.