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Spring 2025 - San Diego
TFLEx Spring Workshop – San Diego – Financing a Sustainable Future – April 14-15, 2025
Program Content/Learning Objectives
A topic all agencies confront. Immediate challenges include the financial investment for infrastructure to tackle climate change – from heat waves to freezes. At the same time, transit agencies are mandated to reduce their carbon footprint. While it is imperative to prepare for the future, the necessary infrastructure is lacking and high capital & operating costs pressure agencies’ budgets. All the while, transit is looked upon as a solution to reduce their metro area’s carbon emissions by taking cars off the road – calls for expanded service in an environment of rising costs, lagging revenues, and looming fiscal cliffs. Transit finance officers from across the country will gather in San Diego to share strategies to meet immediate challenges as well as to support sustainable transit.
Workshop objectives – After attending this conference, participants will be able to:
- Assess the financial challenges facing transit agencies to combat climate change and reduce the agency & regional carbon footprint.
- Understand the capital investment to tackle climate change including the trade-offs between future and immediate budget requirements and infrastructure realities.
- Learn the related operating cost pressures on agencies’ budgets. Hear the challenges regarding agency workforce and energy history and current environment.
- Examine cost mitigation programs such as hedging, federal funding, state credit programs, and other strategies.
- Explore calls for increased service as a solution to reduce metro area carbon emissions – balancing coverage vs. efficiency, equity, and community, and expanded reduced fares.