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Florida’s Toll-Funded Spaceport Strategy: Infrastructure Innovation For the Commercial Space Age

If you have driven past the sprawling rocket manufacturing campus on Merritt Island, you have already seen the kind of infrastructure investment reshaping Florida’s space economy.

From upgraded access roads to dual-use launch support facilities, projects like these are made possible in part by Florida’s creative use of transportation funding — including, in some cases, toll revenue — to support spaceport infrastructure.

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Read "Florida’s Toll-Funded Spaceport Strategy: Infrastructure Innovation For the Commercial Space Age." co-authored by Jeffery M. Chiow, Courtney M. Keller, and Paul DeCoste, published in the Orlando Business Journal. (subscription)