A toll road development project involves designing, financing, and constructing a roadway where users pay fees for access. The goal is to improve transportation infrastructure, reduce congestion, and support regional growth. The project typically includes traffic studies, route planning, land acquisition, and the installation of toll collection systems—either manual, electronic, or both. It may be funded through private funding or public-private partnerships, with revenues used to repay construction costs, maintain the road, and generate returns for investors.
This Finance Model provides a dynamic (up to 15 years) forecast and profitability analysis for a Toll road development and operating scenario. The main purpose of the model is to enable users to get a solid understanding of the financial feasibility of the project and to evaluate the return to investors.
The structure of the template follows Financial Modeling Best Practices principles and is fully customizable.
Model Structure
* Setup Assumptions
This section is used to input all the assumptions for the project.
It includes assumptions for Project Timing, Revenue Assumptions (Toll Collections and Ancillary sources), Direct & Indirect Operating Expenses, Capital Expenditures, Uses & Sources of Cash, and Debt Financing
* Development Budget
This section includes all assumptions for the Road development.
It includes Land Costs, Hard Costs , Soft Costs, Development Contigencies and Development timing
* Loan Schedule
Loan amortization Schedule of project's debt including an optional moratorium and interest-only (IO) period.
* Scenarios
Scenario Ananysis for Road Traffic, Revenue, and OpEx using 3 different approaches (Base, Upside and Downside scenario).
* Project Cash Flows and Return Metrics
Presentation of Project's Cash Flow and Returns including the below reports:
– Monthly and Quarterly Project Cash Flow per Year
– Annual Project Cash Flow
– Financing and Tax Supporting Schedules
– Breakeven Analysis and Key Performance Indicators
– Unlevered & Levered Project Return Metrics (IRR, MOIC, Payback, NPV)
– Project Dashboard including performance metrics and charts
* Investors Distribution Waterfall
A Private Equity 2-Tier Investors Distribution Waterfall Model including LPs Preferred Return (Hurdle Rate)
* Project Executive Summary
Professional Executive Summary report containing all of the high-level relevant information for review and is designed to be easy to read, print, and save to pdf. The report includes Project General Info, Timing, Sources, and Uses of Cash, Operations Summary and Key Metrics, Project and Investor return metrics.
Instructions on the use of the model are included in the Excel file.
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