In France, the obligation to conduct an ex-post assessment is relatively recent (1982) but it has in fact revealed some methodological problems that flow from the retrospective nature of the exercise. This report shows that some of those difficulties can be overcome through the establishment of...

La France est un acteur clé de l’Europe ferroviaire. Elle occupe, et de loin, la première place pour la grande vitesse ferroviaire (53 milliards de voyageurs-kilomètres en 2013). Grâce à l’importance de ce segment de marché, la France est le pays d’Europe qui affiche chaque année le...

[fre] Bien qu’il puisse être appliqué à diverses sortes d’équipements publics, l’objet de cet article concerne les investissements d’infrastructure dans le secteur des transports. Il pose le problème de l’articulation entre les évaluations économiques et financières. Il...

This paper discusses the choice by the public authority of the most efficient programme of infrastructure investments. More specifically, it studies the optimal ranking of project implementation when these projects are partially self-financed by their own revenues such as tolled highways. In...

Over the past twenty years growth in the use of PPPs for new infrastructures has signalled a significant change which completely redefines the issues of public economics in the field of transport policy. This paper concerns the optimal casting between public sphere and private operators. The...

Housing prices in the Lyon Urban area are simulated with the land use framework UrbanSim interacting with the transportation model MOSART. We focus on the Real Estate Price Model of the UrbanSim framework, which proposes the ordinary least square regression. In our simulation, the alternative...

[eng] The opportunity of private financing, building and operating of new infrastructure projects is more and more frequently explored by public authorities in the world. This trend is justified by various reasons. This paper concerns one of them which is a lower need of public financing and...

[spa] El sistema de los transportes urbanos . El sistema de transporte urbano se situa en la confluencia de un sistema de localizaciôn del habitat y de las actividades y de un sistema complejo de prâcticas y relaciones sociales. Permite irrigar la ciudad y responder a sus transformaciones. En...

The development of various forms of public-private partnerships for the financing, building and operating of public infrastructure has not fundamentally altered the economic calculations involved. This chapter examines to what extent it is necessary, however, to change the way that government...