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Partnership strategies for safety roadside rest areas.
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2009-01-01
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Abstract:This project studied the many factors influencing the potential for public private partnerships for Safety
Roadside Rest Areas. It found that Federal and California State laws and regulations represent important
barriers to certain types and locations of safety roadside rest area partnerships, but also offer clear
opportunities. Stakeholders have demonstrated both opposition and support for California’s and other
states’ previous attempts to implement similar projects. Interested parties indicate that if conceived
properly, California might expect to achieve successful off-line public/private commercial rest area
partnerships.
This final report presents a Strategic Action Plan that considers the relevant legal challenges and
recommends methods for taking advantage of the opportunities while working within the legal barriers. It
addresses the trade-offs between seeking greater cost savings and partner contribution, duration of control
of the partnership site, and relative difficulty and speed of project implementation. The plan offers a
recommended procurement approach. Prospective sites were identified statewide that not only fill
important gaps in the California rest area system, but also demonstrate an ability to both meet the legal
requirements and accommodate stakeholder concerns.
The Business Plan concludes by estimating (1) Caltrans’ cost savings associated with developing off-line
commercial SRRAs instead of an on-line or off-line non-commercial SRRA at the candidate sites, and (2)
Caltrans’ financial contribution, if any, to implement each of the off-line commercial SRRA partnerships.
The analysis demonstrates that Caltrans might expect to achieve significant cost savings by developing
entirely new public/private commercial SRRAs instead of exclusively public SRRAs at the locations
identified. Caltrans might expect even greater savings by partnering with existing or even prospective truck
stop or travel plaza operators, whose marginal costs to expand their facilities into commercial SRRAs would
be less than to develop an entirely new facility. Caltrans might even avoid rest area project development
costs in exchange for providing a private contractor with the right to receive official rest area designation
and Interstate signing.
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