Colorado Department of Transportation Overview

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Colorado Department of
Transportation
University of Denver
The Future of State Government
Strategic Issues Panel
September 9, 2010
Oversight
23 000 lane miles of state highways
23,000
9,134 centerline miles of state highways including interstates
3,754 on-system bridges
28.7 billion vehicle miles traveled
on state
t t highways
hi h
and
d iinterstate
t t t highways/year
hi h
/
278 regularly monitored/controlled avalanche paths
6 000 miles
6,000
il off ditches
dit h
and much more!
Responsibilities
•Highways (Maintenance and
Operations)
•Transit (Planning & Grant Admin)
•Aviation ((Interface with FAA))
•Local Roads (long range planning)
•Outreach
•Planning
Pl
i &B
Budget
d t
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Transportation Commission (TC)
11-member CDOT governing body (appointed by the Governor and
confirmed by the Senate)
• Serve four-year terms
• Meet monthly
• Responsible for
policy
y direction statewide via investment
• Sets overall fiscal and p
categories
• System Quality, Safety, Program Delivery, and Mobility
• Short term and long-term priorities
• Approves
A
budget
b d t & allocation
ll
ti off ffunds
d
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High Performance Transportation
Enterprise (HPTE)
• 7 Members
▫ Created in 2009 by SB 09-108 (FASTER)
▫ Made up of 3 members of the TC, and 4 (appointed by Governor)
▫ The HPTE operates as a government-owned business within the
department and is a division of the department.
• Responsible for
▫ Aggressively pursue innovative means of more efficiently
financing
g projects
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▫ Innovative means of include, but are not limited to, public-private
partnerships, operating concession agreements, user fee-based
project financing, availability payment and design-build
contracting.
Other Boards and Commissions
• Bridge Enterprise
x Created in 2009 by SB 09
09-108
108 (FASTER)
x Comprised of the members of the TC
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Responsible
ibl for
f bridges
b id
identified
id tifi d as structurally
t t ll d
deficient
fi i t or
functionally obsolete and rated poor
• Colorado
C l d A
Aeronautics
ti Di
Division
i i
x Created in 1988 by HB 88-1205
x 7 Member Aeronautics Board (appointed by Governor, approved by Senate)
x Represent both government and aviation-interest
aviation interest constituencies
x
x
x
x
Responsible for aviation development in Colorado
Administration of the Aviation Fund
Inclusion of aviation needs in statewide transportation plan
Adopts budget for the Division of Aviation
CDOT Engineering Regions
Each region
manages all
activities
within their
geographic
hi
area.
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Transportation Planning
Planning Partners
Working
together for a
continuing,
cooperative,
and
comprehensive
transportation
planning
process per
federal law
Transportation Planning Regions (TPR)
•Elected officials
of urban and rural
areas
•Federal Partners
•Meet periodically
Elected
Offi i l
Officials
Meetings
Statewide Transportation
Advisory Committee
STAC
•Representatives from
all 15 TPR
TPR’ss advise CDOT
•Monthly meetings
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•CDOT Representation
County
Hearing
Process
Public
Involvement
Transportation
Commission
Sources of Transportation Funding
18¢/gal.
Gasoline
24.4¢/gal.
+
22¢/gal.
+
Vehicle
registration
fees
Including
SB 09-108
FASTER
Diesel
+ Other
Fees &
Tickets
SB 09
09-228
228
2% excess
General Fund
Gasoline
20.5¢/gal.
Diesel
Year to Year Funding
Actual
CDOT funding (in millions o
C
of dollars)
CDOT Funding Sources by Fiscal Year
Year, 1990-2010 and Projected 2011-2017
1,800
1,600
1 400
1,400
1,200
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
State Highway Users Tax Fund (State Gas Tax)
State General Fund Revenue (SB1, HB1310, SB228)
Federal Highway Administration and Highway Safety (Federal Gas Tax)
Senate Bill 09-108 ("FASTER") Revenue
Inflation Adjusted
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CDO
OT funding (in millions of do
ollars)
CDOT Funding Sources by Fiscal Year, Actual 1990-2010 and Projected 2011-2017
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
State Highway
g
y Users Tax Fund ((State Gas Tax))
State General Fund Revenue (SB1, HB1310, SB228)
Federal Highway Administration and Highway Safety (Federal Gas Tax)
Senate Bill 09-108 ("FASTER") Revenue
Other federal, state and local
CDOT’S
CDOT
S Aging System
128 of
Colorado
Bridges
are rated
“Poor”
14
Some
highways
70-100
70
100
years old
52.5 % of
Colorado
Highways are
Rated “Poor”
33% of highways
need
d complete
l t
reconstruction
Mobility
ob ty
485
Centerline miles of CO
roadway are congested
Population
over 65 will
double by
2025
1.5 million
more
people by
2020
Truck traffic
will
ill double
d bl
by 2030
I-70 congestion
costs
$700 million
$
annually
Solution
•The need to fix and maintain our aging
i f t t
infrastructure
will
ill nott go away.
•Colorado must p
provide a p
permanent,,
dependable and sustainable revenue source
provide a safe,, reliable,, and
that will p
convenient transportation system to support
y and the needs of our citizens.
our economy
Transportation Finance and Implementation
Panel
• Key
Ke Recommendations
Recommendations:
•“Fix-it-First”
•Strategic mobility
•Improve shoulders
•Local
L
l share
h
•Urban and rural transit investments
•Bike/Ped improvements
•Environment investments
Tolling
•Tolling
•Public private partnerships
Mileage Based User Fee (MBUF)
Study
Next federal reauthorization will
likely include funding for studies
and/or
a
d/o p
pilot
o p
programs
og a s
CDOT is preparing to explore the conceptual framework for a
pilot project evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of
introducing MBUF in Colorado.
Focus areas include:
•what issues must be considered and dealt with
•urban vs. rural dynamic
•behavioral changes that may result
Federal Update
•For FY ’11, Federal Funds are expected to make up about 34%
of CDOT’s budget.
•Transportation expenditures have exceeded gas tax receipts in
recentt years, but
b t the
th Trust
T t Fund
F d is
i currently
tl solvent
l
t thanks
th k to
t
$19.5 billion in general fund transfers.
•SAFETEA-LU
•SAFETEA
LU extension expires December 31
31. Federal
program remains unstable and difficult to predict.
Probability of b bl
f
payment to CDOT 30%
$900 M
$900 M
$447 M
FY ‘12 RA
Probability of
payment to CDOT
60%
$413.3 M
FY ’12 Collections
Probability of payment to CDOT p
y
90%
$349.3 M
Budget FY ’11
Budget FY 11 TC
TC
Probability of payment to CDOT 95%
Probability of payment to CDOT 100%
$223.8 M
Worst Case S
Scenario
i
$499.4 M FY’10 SAFETEA‐LU
FY’12 FY’12
Federal Funds Barometer
ARRA Update
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
$596 Million
Milli Transportation
T
t ti Dollars
D ll
• Highway - $385 million
• Transit - $120.7
$120 7 million
• Aviation - $37 million
• Transit - $40 million RTD New Starts Grant
• Transit – $1.095 million RTD “TIGGER” Energy Grants
• Multimodal - $10 TIGER TIFIA Challenge Grant
• Rail – $1 million Interregional Connectivity Study Grant
• Rail - $400,000 State Rail Plan Grant
• J
Job
bT
Training
i i –$610,000
$610 000 CDOT construction
t ti related
l t d
training and placement program (3 grants)
ARRA Update:
(Colorado - as of July 31, 2010)
Transportation Spending - Highway and Transit
• 127 Projects Put out to Bid worth $396,249,578
• 125 Projects Under Contract worth $395,161,988
• 119 Projects Under Construction or Starting Soon worth
$381,737,234
• 38 Projects Complete worth $58
$58,073,363
073 363
Job Information - Highway and Transit
• 32,530 Direct Jobs Created or Sustained
• 1,721,635 Direct Job Hours Created or Sustained
• $47,041,754 Payroll from Job Hours Created or
Sustained
State Update
•For
F FY ’11,
’11 St
State
t Funds
F d are expected
t d to
t
make up about 59% of CDOT’s budget,
including 16% from FASTER.
•FASTER receipts are providing a much
needed infusion of funds into CDOT’s
budget.
•2010 state legislative actions reduce
funding
g for highway
g
yp
projects
j
by
y over $40
million for the next two years.
Funding Advancements for
Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery
(FASTER)
• In 2009 the General Assembly passed Senate Bill 09-108 also
known as FASTER:
• This legislation changed the way that transportation funding
works in Colorado
Colorado.
FASTER Safety
y
Monies collected under FASTER are used for
construction, reconstruction, or maintenance projects
that the Transportation
p
Commission, a county
y or
municipality determine are needed to enhance the
safety of a state highway, county road, or city street.
FY 1010 $83.2
$83 2 million
illi CDOT R
Road
dS
Safety
f t
surcharge/Vehicle Rental fee /Late Fee/
Supplemental OS/OW fee collections:
FASTER Bridge
FASTER Bridge Fund monies are to be used to repair or
replace
l
poor rated
d bridges
b id
on our highway
hi h
system.
FY 10- $44.1 million=
Bridge Safety fee Collections
Web sites
CDOT
www.coloradodot.info
FASTER
/www.coloradodot.info/projects/faster
ARRA
eco e y go
www.recovery.gov
Questions?
Russell George
CDOT
E
Executive
ti Director
Di
t
303-757-9201
russell.george@dot.state.co.us
usse geo ge@dot state co us

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