Traditional program evaluation of transport investment tends to focus on relatively narrow measures of market benefit (e.g. a transport project's reductions in travel-times that will be generated for travelers). In many cases benefit measures such as these are more than sufficient, especially...

This is a detailed set of lecture notes from a course I taught at the University of Southern California on Public Managerial Economics for students completing their MPA and DPA degrees. The course is long since defunct but the material covered is still very valid. The approach taken here is both...

Australia is facing a potentially huge need for investment in infrastructure investment in the coming decades to deal with growing population, shifting economic and demographic patterns, and adaptation to sea level rise and other effects of climate change. There is, however, an institutional...

A standard approach to economics education at the undergraduate level is simplification and summarisation. The idea is that economics is a complicated subject which must be boiled down for university students to allow them a grasp of fundamentals that can then serve as a basis for more advanced...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in transport are a growing phenomenon throughout the world. The developing world in particular has seen a veritable explosion of such arrangements. There can be, however, a significant difference between developing countries that are 'low-income' versus those...

In 1898, the five counties of Richmond, New York, Bronx, Queens, and Kings came together in a consolidation which created the five boroughs of New York City. Staten Island went from being an independent county in the State of New York to a interdependent borough of the new City of New York, as...

In 2003, the European Union (EU) introduced a requirement for a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) for professional truck drivers operating within the EU. There has been recent discussion of imposing a similar requirement in Australia. This paper reviews the experience of EU trucking...

This paper examines the value creation model employed by Macquarie Bank, the worldwide leader in private infrastructure finance. Macquarie, an Australian firm, uses an infrastructure investment model that has been the subject of much imitation. A combination of merchant bank and venture capital...

(conference paper: American Society for Public Administration, 58th National Conference, Philadelphia, July 26-30, 1997)Traditional models of urban economic development focus on regions. For example, States and localities are usually seen as being in competition with one another within a region...

An "Intelligent Transportation System" (ITS) is a broad term encompassing a wide-range of individual technologies, from simple "smart signs" to real-time electronic monitoring and management of traffic flows. The use of such technologies is often touted as a way of easing traffic congestion,...