September – October 2024

Since the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, every state and region of this country has seen historic federal investments announced in roads and bridges, ports and airports, and trains and transit. The Biden-Harris Administration has announced nearly $454 billion in BIL funding since its passage in 2021, including over 56,000 specific projects and awards across over 4,500 communities in all 50 states, D.C., and the territories and for Tribes. 

While many of the economic benefits of the legislation will play out over the coming years and decades, job gains in construction industries suggest that some benefits have already begun to emerge.  In addition, because of strong investment in transportation and infrastructure and the construction and manufacturing that goes with it, we are in the midst of an extraordinary and, by many measures, unprecedented period of economic growth. 

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg launched the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence in the summer of 2023. At the kickoff of a U.S. DOT thought leadership series on Delivering the Benefits of the BIL, Secretary Buttigieg stated that many of the 800 participants linking in from across the transportation enterprise were a part of the story of the passage of the monumental BIL. “And now, it’s time to be part of the story of how we make good on its potential,” he said.

U.S. DOT is committed to partnering with federal, Tribal governments, state, and local project sponsors to speed up project delivery and thereby maximize and accelerate the benefits of BIL. The Project Delivery Center of Excellence is one of the critical tools U.S. DOT is using to achieve such success. 

Series Panels

This virtual, three-part thought leadership series included three panels of transportation thought leaders focusing on: 

• Project Delivery Lessons Learned from Emergency Response Following an Infrastructure Catastrophe
• Best Practices to Get Big Infrastructure Projects off the Ground 
• Project Acceleration for the Public Good. 

Final Report

View the final report.

Speaker Lineup

*The views of the speakers may not represent the views of U.S. DOT. 

Sponsored by the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence

Hosted by the U.S. DOT Volpe Center, this series is sponsored by the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence.