Here, you can increase the amount of KDOT's bonded indebtedness. For illustrative purposes within this Calculator, any revenues in your program generated from selling bonds are averaged and added to your revenues over the first five years (2010-1014). This is consistent with how other revenues and expenditures are reported within the Calculator. In reality, bond receipts would vary from year to year, the timing depending on when projects were constructed and revenue was needed to pay for them.

One way of measuring a state's capacity for taking on debt is called its "debt coverage ratio." This is calculated by looking at the ratio between projected revenues and debt payments. A debt coverage ratio above 3.5 is considered good. The KDOT ratio is around 4.5.

NOTE: If you included any additional bonding, you'll notice in the "Long Term View" chart that your available revenues dip after 2014. This is because the new debt payments have been subtracted out. In the years 2010-2014, the debt payments are netted out of the bond revenues (shown in brown).