Transportation investment advocates, state lawmakers, public officials, and industry experts from around the country will gather in-person July 15-16 in Washington, D.C. for the 11th Annual National Workshop for State & Local Transportation Advocates. Participants will collaborate, share success stories, and discuss challenges and trends in transportation funding efforts across the country.

Sessions will feature:

• The politics of transportation funding and how to create support in state legislatures, with Hawaii Sen. Chris Lee (D- District 25), Maryland Del. Marc A. Korman, Esq. (D- District 16), and Wisconsin Sen. Howard Marklein (R- District 17).

• Best practices and lessons learned on implementing a state per-mile and weight fee on trucks, with Commissioner Mark Boughton, Connecticut Department of Revenue Services.

• Recovering lost revenue from fuel-efficient vehicles, with Nick Donohue, principal, Capitol Transportation Consulting, former deputy secretary of transportation, Virginia Department of Transportation.

• Exploring alternative revenue sources through a mileage-based user fee pilot, with Joel Skelley, director of policy, Kansas Department of Transportation.

• Evaluating long-term revenue solutions, with Frank Principe, Jr., Chair of the Maryland Commission on Transportation Revenue and Infrastructure Needs.

“There is so much at stake with these funding issues. Politics is the process of making good policy, but the process is relational. This workshop provides an opportunity to build relationships and get better access to data and information.” -Seth Millican, executive director, Georgia Transportation Alliance

Other sessions will explore successful strategies for communicating the importance of transportation investment, hard facts and information on the challenges to transitional transportation revenue sources, and what’s at stake with the November congressional elections.

View the agenda and register now to reserve your space.

Members of the Transportation Investment Advocates Council receive a discounted rate and public officials attend for free. Contact Carolyn Kramer Simons for the discount code.

The Workshop is held in conjunction with ARTBA’s 36th Annual Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Conference.