This last week, the most active state in the american P3 industry has been Arizona. After Governor Jan Brewer signed into law HB 2396 (allows the Arizona Department of Transportation to use public-private partnerships as a tool to address Arizona's transportation requirements), Arizona Department of Transportation hired transportation consultancy Wilbur Smith Associates to help kick start the process and it is envisaged that by June 2010 ADOT will have to P3 projects to bring to market.Nossaman and KPMG seem to be collaborating with ADOT too. Here I letf you some slides from a presentation that took place on September 29th:CONFERENCE AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYArizona State University's Del E. Webb School of Construction is holding its third annual Public Private Partnerships Conference on Oct. 22.Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters will deliver the keynote address. Peters, an Arizona native, was director of the Arizona Department of Transportation before she was tapped by President George W. Bush for the Washington post.Peters is now a consultant to various transportation-related companies and has been a long-time advocate of public-private partnerships.Arizona P3 ConferenceOn November 18-20, industry advocacy group the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships will hold its annual conference in Phoenix too.POSSIBLE P3 PROJECTSOne of the five listed routes as suitable: Arizona 801, which would parallel I-10 and connect the proposed South Mountain Freeway with Arizona 85 in Buckeye.There is more information about the project on ADOT's website.And remember, all Arizona P3 news are on the Public private partnerships in infrastructure's website.