Transport Infrastructure Investment
Subtitle: options for efficiency.
Contributors: International Transport Forum.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD/ITF
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789282101551
Subjects: Transportation -- Finance; Infrastructure (Economics)
Description: Surface transport plays a fundamental role in nearly all social and economic activity. Providing and maintaining the infrastructure consumes enormous resources. Thus, it is essential that this be carried out in the most efficient and effective way possible. Many options are available to provide surface transport infrastructure - public ministries and agencies, public-private partnerships (PPPs), state-owned companies, private and non-profit entities, and outright privatization. There are also various means of paying for it, including user charging, subsidies, public borrowing or private financing. This report examines key principles that should be considered by governments in deciding how to provide and pay for surface transport infrastructure, with a view to best serving societies' needs and employing public resources. It also considers the key issues that must be resolved in making more use of private financing and expertise.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Transport Research Centre."

At head of title: OECD, International Transport Forum.

Includes bibliographical references.