Deb Miller John Horsley Secretary Executive director Kansas Department of American Association of State Transportation Highway and Transportation Officials AASHTO What problems are states facing in securing Washington, D.C. funding for infrastructure? Are there inno- vative ways to leverage existing funding? What innovative programs/policies exist to build projects faster, cheaper and better? hile the public's expectation for W good roads isn't changing, there here are a lot of great programs out there. The first that comes to mind is the Accelerated T is greater reluctance on the part Construction Technology Transfer, or ACTT. The program, which is a joint effort of the of legislators and taxpayers nationally to Federal Highway Administration and AASHTO, is a series of two-day workshops for approve general tax increases to support state transportation departments in which a multi-disciplinary team of 20