April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1376 pages
38h 48m
English
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CHAPTER 58
Toll Road Analysis
Robert H. Muller Managing Director JPMorgan Securities
This chapter describes the methodology and approaches needed to analyze toll road revenue bonds. Distinctions between the analysis required to study an already established entity and that needed to determine the risks entailed in a new project for a “greenfield” road will be explored as well. Because defaults have occurred on startup toll road projects, the analyst faces a potentially greater burden in evaluating these kinds of bonds than what is the norm for a typical government-created entity.
HISTORY
We begin the chapter with a look at the short history of toll road financing in the United States.
1792-1940
Toll roads have been part of the United States transportation system since the time of George Washington. “Pennsylvania chartered the first, connecting Philadelphia and Lancaster, in 1792 and it opened in 1794.”724 The road was heavily used by Conestoga wagons heading westward. Its success “led other states to adopt the new plan. By 1800, 69 companies had been chartered.”725 Many of these turnpikes were privately run, but some were publicly built or subsidized. This wave began to peter out as canals and railroads displaced the toll roads and many eventually failed. Beginning in the 1920s, toll revenues were used to secure the construction and financing of the Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia. The Golden Gate Bridge in ...
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