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Investing in our future: Infrastructure

Bill Anderson Ontario Research Chair in Cross Border Transportation Policy Director, Cross-Border Institute University of Windsor For Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce , Policy and Solutions Forum May 15, 2014. Investing in our future: Infrastructure. What is public infrastructure.

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Investing in our future: Infrastructure

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  1. Bill Anderson Ontario Research Chair in Cross Border Transportation Policy Director, Cross-Border Institute University of Windsor For Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce, Policy and Solutions Forum May 15, 2014 Investing in our future:Infrastructure

  2. What is public infrastructure • Capital that provides public services • Large initial investment • Benefits over a long period of time • Why is it public? • No private firm can do it • or • Natural monopoly • Principal of equity • Externalities (congestion, pollution, criticality)

  3. What sorts of benefits? • Economic stimulus • User benefits • Non-user benefits (congestion relief) • Enhanced productivity • Transformational benefits • Water / sewage and urbanization • Railroads and Western agriculture • Ambassador Bridge and automotive industry

  4. Realizing transformation benefits • If you build it, they may never come. • Building infrastructure is only half the job. • Understand how infrastructure changes the economic landscape and seize new opportunities

  5. 3 key projects • Herb Gray Parkway / DRIC Bridge • Continental Rail Gateway • Lauzon Corridor

  6. Highway 401 ends 14 Signalized Intersections in less than 10 Km Segment

  7. New cross-border rail tunnel

  8. Making the Lauzon connection • With the right connection, land ready for development is practically “on” the 401 • With the Herb Gray Parkway and the DRIC bridge “on the 401” is practically “on the border.” • Containers to and from the Continental Rail Gateway pass through the area serves by Lauzon connection. • Building infrastructure is only half the job.

  9. Border Logistics and Security Initiative City of Windsor / University of Windsor • Funding from FedDev Ontario to create an integrated cross-border logistics and security cluster in Windsor-Essex • New logistics buildings in airport lands • Cross-Border Institute (CBI) at U Windsor: research, education and outreach • Institute for Border Logistics and Security (IBLS) on Airport Lands: promote border-related cluster.

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