Both the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have tracked the trends in transportation governance and finance for many years. From 2010 to 2011, NCSL and the AASHTO Center for Excellence in Project Finance partnered to collaboratively produce this resource.
To contribute an informed, on-the-ground, state-level perspective, NCSL and AASHTO also formed a joint task force to serve as an oversight committee for this project (Appendix A contains a list of members). The NCSL-AASHTO Joint Project Oversight Committee (also known as the NCSL-AASHTO Task Force)-composed of members of the NCSL Transportation Standing Committee and the AASHTO Standing Committee on Finance and Administration-worked for more than a year to ensure the usefulness of this report.