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Leasing the Indiana Toll Road: Reviewing the First Six Years Under Private Operation Reason Foundation Policy Brief 108 May 2013 Leasing the Indiana Toll Road: Reviewing the First Six Years Under Private Operation by Leonard Gilroy and David Aloyts Many states currently face a major challenge in which in 2006 leased its 157-mile Indiana Toll Road to transportation infrastructure funding, given the grow- a private concessionaire for 75 years in return for $3.8 ing gap between identified transportation needs and billion, which the state has dedicated to transportation available funding. Across the nation, the revenues investment statewide. derived from fuel taxes and other traditional transpor- To help policymakers elsewhere understand the tation funding sources are increasingly falling short potential opportunity a lease of public sector toll roads of what is needed to maintain existing highways and could offer to their jurisdictions, this policy brief exam- bridges, much less deliver the new or modernized trans- ines the results from the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) lease portation infrastructure to support the 21st century thus far. economy. In recent years, some state and local govern- ments—including Indiana, Colorado and Puerto Rico, among others—have taken steps to turn over the opera- UndeRstanding the indiana tion of public sector toll roads to private sector inves- tor-operator teams in order to improve their financial toll Road lease and operational performance and stretch traditional Like many states today, prior to the ITR lease in transportation dollars further. 2006, Indiana was facing a multibillion-dollar gap Shifting any public asset to private management between statewide transportation project needs and requires careful due diligence, and in contemplating projected revenues (approximately $3 billion in Indi- such a step it is useful for policymakers and taxpayers ana’s case). The ITR was also losing money at the time, to examine the results of similar transactions elsewhere. with toll rates not having increased in 20 years, result- Though long-term leases of public sector toll roads have ing in deferred maintenance and under-investment in occurred in several jurisdictions in recent years, the the roadway. largest and most notable example comes from Indiana, Reason Foundation • www.reason.org For Indiana, this changed on June 29, 2006, when would be worth advocating to my fellow citizens. the state reached financial close on a 75-year conces- In the event, we received a best bid of $3.8 billion. sion (lease) agreement with the Indiana Toll Road Con- Upon closing, we will cash a check in this amount and cession Company (ITRCC)—a joint venture between commence the largest building program in our state’s Spanish toll road operator Cintra and an infrastructure history, while transferring the burden and the risk of investment unit of Australian bank Macquarie—for the running the toll road to the private firm. At one stroke operation and management of the Indiana Toll Road our seemingly insurmountable transportation gap (ITR). In return for a $3.8 billion upfront payment to will be closed. Needed projects that have sat around the state by ITRCC, the concessionaire was granted the in blueprint stage for years will now become reality. rights to operate, maintain and collect revenue from The jobs generated by the construction alone will be the 156-mile toll road for 75 years. measured in the tens of thousands, and the permanent Similar to other commercial leases, the state retains payoff in incremental economic activity should far the ultimate ownership of the roadway in the conces- exceed that. sion and negotiated a detailed, performance-based con- In short, the state took advantage of a powerful tract outlining the state’s requirements of the conces- opportunity to leverage an asset that was underper- sionaire in terms of maintenance, emergency response, forming in the state’s hands, unlocking the economic toll rate caps and a range of other operational factors. value previously trapped within it as a government-run Hence, Indiana did not “sell” its toll road; rather, it asset and investing it into new capital assets with long- leased the road’s operation to a concessionaire for 75 term value in delivering needed new infrastructure to years in return for billions of dollars the state has invested improve the movement of people and goods statewide. into new and upgraded transportation infrastructure statewide. Indiana governor Mitch Daniels described the Use of lease Proceeds rationale behind the ITR lease in a 2006 article: To ensure that the proceeds from leasing a long-term [The] 40-year-old Indiana Toll Road across the revenue stream would be invested to ensure long-lived northern part of our state continued losing money and benefits to Hoosiers, the state invested the bulk of the deferring maintenance and expansion, while charging $3.8 billion lease payment into new and upgraded trans- the lowest tolls of any comparable highway. Tolls had portation infrastructure. Approximately $2.8 billion was not been raised in twenty years; at some booths the dedicated to Major Moves, a new, statewide highway charge was 15 cents. (As the new governor, I inno- construction program that has since delivered hundreds cently inquired what it cost us to collect each toll. This of road and bridge projects across the state, many of being government, no one knew, but after a few days which had previously been identified as needs but lacked of study the answer came back: “34 cents. We think.” dedicated funding. The state also repaid $200 million I replied, only half in jest, that we’d be better off going in outstanding ITR debt, resulting in the state no longer to the honor system.) With politicians in charge, having any indebtedness related to the toll road for the neither sensible pricing nor businesslike operational first time in its half-century of existence. practices were likely, ever. Local governments also received funding from the […] Without knowing what level of interest to ITR lease proceeds, apart from Major Moves: expect, we offered to lease our toll road long-term to any interested operator willing to pay for the privilege. n The state distributed $150 million in lease pro- Independent estimates of the road’s net present ceeds to each of Indiana’s 92 counties for local road value in state hands ranged from $1.1 billion to $1.6 improvements. billion, the latter figure aggressively presuming that n The state distributed an additional $240 million in all future politicians, unlike all their predecessors, proceeds to the seven counties the ITR traverses would raise tolls at least in line with inflation. I had for local infrastructure and economic development resolved that only a bid far in excess of that range projects. leasing the indiana toll Road 2 Reason Foundation • www.reason.org n The state has committed $120 million over ten n Limits on the amount that toll rates can be years to the Northwest Regional Development increased by the concessionaire without prior state Authority for local economic development uses. approval (capped by inflation, in ITR’s case). The state also anticipated the long-term mainte- n Performance standards in operations, safety, main- nance of its expanded road and bridge capacity, allo- tenance, and electrical and mechanical systems. As cating $500 million in lease proceeds to a new Next an example, the ITR contract goes so far as to specify Generation Trust Fund created to generate interest the maximum amount of time that the concession- income to provide stable, long-term maintenance aire has to respond to vehicle incidents (15 minutes), funding for the new assets delivered as a result of remove snow (4 hours after storm), remove roadkill Major Moves. (8 hours), remove graffiti (24 hours) and respond to Investment earnings from the Trust Fund are hazardous incidents (immediate). transferred to the separate Major Moves Construction n Provisions for contract amendment in the future, Fund every five years, with the first $124 million trans- as well as provisions for early termination of the fer having occurred in April 2011. agreement. Looking across both funds in which the state n A requirement that at the conclusion of the 75-year invested a majority of ITR lease proceeds, the state had lease, that the concessionaire turn the ITR back generated $755.4 million in interest income as of April over to the state in like-new condition, which cre- 2011, with an overall rate of return of 6.8%. In essence, ates a strong incentive for the concessionaire to the ITR lease has allowed the state to turn a revenue- perform proper asset management over the life of losing asset into an asset that is funding billions in the contract. transportation investment now and generating hun- dreds of millions of dollars for the state’s long-term n A requirement that the concessionaire reimburse transportation infrastructure needs—even though the the state for the annual costs of law enforcement to state is no longer operating it. patrol the ITR, removing this long-term cost from the state’s books. itR operations and Maintenance n A requirement that the concessionaire reimburse the state for its annual costs of monitoring the contract. During the initial debate on leasing the ITR, some opponents feared that privatization would involve Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels summarized a loss of state control and that the state would no the ITR concession in a May 2012 Washington Post longer be able to protect the public interest if it did not opinion article by noting that the Indiana Toll Road directly operate the asset. However, this perception lease “has a 432-page agreement that tightly controls is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the everything from toll rates to how long the operator has nature of long-term toll road concessions.
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