Transport trends and economics 2016-2017
Subtitle: innovative ways for financing transport infrastructure
By: Economic Commission for Europe, Inland Transport Committee
Contributors: Alexopoulos, Konstantinos, editor; Wyrowski, Lukasz, editor; United Nations
Publisher: United Nations; United Nations Environment Programme
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9789211171563; 9789213632468
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Planning; Finance; Transportation; Local transit
Other titles: Innovative ways for financing transport infrastructure
Description: During recent decades governments all around the world were faced with a complicated set of options for investing in transport, including transport infrastructure. This publication examines main principles for determining the most appropriate models for financing transport infrastructure expenditures but also illustrates and analyses many innovative ways to finance transport infrastructure. Financing, in this context, means the provision of money at the time and in the quantity, that is needed to meet society's transport infrastructure and transport service provision needs. Thus, financing is a basic underpinning of the entire process of providing and operating transport infrastructure. Accepting the view, that transport infrastructure is needed to provide a well-defined set of public services, at the highest-level financing the transport sector, including transport infrastructure expenditures, is fundamentally a sovereign task, which involves determining how much of the government's available (public) resources will be channelled into the transport infrastructure, during a given period, as opposed to other policy priorities. However, this report proves that this is not the case anymore. There are many other innovative ways from which transport infrastructure construction could be funded other than the government's available (public) resources.
Notes: "ECE/Trans/264"--Title page verso.

"Sales number: E.18.II.E.11"--Title page verso.

"The report was coordinated and prepared by Mr. Konstantinos Alexopoulos and Mr. Lukasz Wyrowski"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-88).

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