As public transit systems grapple with the aftermath of COVID-19, they must confront declining ridership, labor shortages, and supply chain obstacles. Despite the farebox, maintenance, and talent challenges, there are opportunities to seize.
What’s in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law?
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law—also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—is a once-in-a-generation investment in the United States’ core infrastructure. The bipartisan legislation provides for $1.2 trillion in spending over the next five years, including $550 billion in new spending for roads, bridges, public transit, power systems, broadband, water systems, climate resilience, and more.
This investment presents a massive opportunity for federal, state, and local governments to rebuild the country’s aging cities, roads, and bridges. It will create new jobs, combat climate change, and spur economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities. The 2021 Infrastructure Bill also presents opportunities for the industries that partner with governments to plan, develop, and operate US infrastructure.
BCG works closely with federal, state, and local governments—as well as partner industries—to help invest public dollars efficiently and equitably in:
What Makes BCG Different?
BCG has the depth and breadth of expertise to ensure that new projects are managed efficiently and holistically. We’re able to do this because our capabilities, tools, and partnerships touch upon every aspect of the bipartisan infrastructure plan.
- We have hundreds of experts throughout the US who specialize in the public sector, transportation and logistics, power and utilities, technology and telecommunications, and more.
- BCG’s green procurement framework enables procurement functions at all levels of government—central, regional, and local—to reap the full benefits of green public procurement and reduce the world’s carbon footprint.
- BCG’s proprietary tools allow organizations to forecast trends, predict job growth, gain market insights, maximize productivity, and track metrics on outcomes
- BCG has strong partnerships with world-leading climate organizations. We are a consultancy partner to COP26, the World Economic Forum, WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), the Science Based Targets initiative, and CDP, to name a few.
- BCG’s Center for Climate & Sustainability brings together 550 experts from across the firm to address the full range of sustainability topics, including decarbonization, climate innovation, transition financing, water management, and other ESG issues relevant to the new infrastructure bill.
- We have partnerships with federal, state, and local governments across the US and extensive experience coordinating among these entities.
The United States infrastructure bill will deliver immense investments in transportation, broadband, clean energy, and cities across the US. BCG has decades of experience maximizing return on investment in all these areas.
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