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Author Roumboutsos, Athena

Title Funding and Financing Transport Infrastructure : Business Models to Enhance and Enable Financing of Infrastructure in Transport
Published Milton : CRC Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Series Spon Research
Spon research.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The need for a transport infrastructure delivery performance rating; 1.2 Business models for Enhancing funding and Enabling Financing of Infrastructure in Transport: introducing the system and its rating; 1.3 Introducing the chapters of this book; 1.4 Notes; 1.5 References; 2 Key mode-specific issues in funding and financing of transport infrastructure; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Road infrastructure
2.2.1 The importance of the project implementation context2.2.2 Cost overrun and delays in project implementation; 2.2.3 Traffic forecasting performance; 2.2.4 Limited ability to support their business model; 2.2.5 Vulnerability to exogenous adverse impacts; 2.3 Bridge and tunnel infrastructure; 2.3.1 Natural monopolies; 2.3.2 Planning period; 2.3.3 Cost intensity; 2.3.4 Involvement of international actors; 2.3.5 Political support; 2.4 Urban transit; 2.4.1 Local transport authorities; 2.4.2 Low level of profitability; 2.4.3 Project complexity and the need for adjustments during operation
2.5 Port infrastructure2.5.1 The impact of international trade; 2.5.2 The role of strategic agents in the shipping industry; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.6.1 Implementation context; 2.6.2 Business model element; 2.6.3 Governance element; 2.6.4 Financing and funding scheme elements; 2.6.5 Concluding remarks; 2.7 Note; 2.8 References; 3 Transport infrastructure delivery in context; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Exogenous indicators: the implementation context as a pre-requisite for the delivery of transport infrastructure projects; 3.2.1 Institutional context; 3.2.2 Financial-economic context
3.2.3 The evolution of implementation context for 18 European countries3.3 System endogenous structural indicators; 3.3.1 Business models for transport infrastructure; 3.3.2 Governance in infrastructure contractual arrangements; 3.4 System endogenous policy indicators; 3.4.1 Financing Scheme Indicator: capturing the characteristics of financing schemes for transport infrastructure projects; 3.4.2 Funding Scheme Indicator: project revenues and returns; 3.5 The importance of transport infrastructure mode; 3.5.1 From a long list to a short list: the methodological framework
3.5.2 Case selection and data collection3.5.3 Operationalisation of the Transport Mode Indicator; 3.6 What do system indicators say?; 3.6.1 A multi-method analysis approach; 3.6.2 Combining findings; 3.7 Conclusions; 3.8 Notes; 3.9 References; 4 Measuring transport infrastructure project resilience; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Transport Infrastructure Resilience Indicator (TIRESI); 4.2.1 Project and system resilience: basic definitions and concepts; 4.2.2 Defining the Transport Infrastructure Resilience Indicator; 4.2.3 Measures of resilience and methodological considerations
Notes 4.2.4 Transport Infrastructure Resilience Indicator rating system
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Form Electronic book
Author Voordijk, Hans
Pantelias, Aristeidis
ISBN 9781351866217
1351866214