Our troubled highway system -- How the private sector is reinventing America's freeways -- Where America's 20th-century highway model came from -- The rediscovery of toll road companies overseas -- Toll concessions return to America -- The benefits of long-term P3 concessions -- Critics and...

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America...

The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically,...

Abstract: Die Arbeit untersucht die Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in Japan. Hierfür werden zunächst die Grundlagen der PFI, ein Modell zur Erbringung öffentlicher Leistungen unter Nutzung privaten Kapitals, erläutert. Eingegangen wird auch auf das Third-Sector-System als Vorgänger der...

Theorie der makro- und mikroökonomischen Wirkung von Infrastruktur -- PPP aus Sicht der Neuen Institutionenökonomik -- Risikotransfer / Risikoallokation in PPP-Projekten -- Institutionen als Bestimmungsfaktoren für PPPs in Kamerun. .

In 1993, the British government turned to the private sector to finance much needed investment in public infrastructure and manage services under its Public Private Partnerships (PPP) policy (Edwards et al., 2004), with transport forming by far the largest component by value of the PPP...