TR News May-June 2011: Public–Private Partnerships: Filling Funding Gaps for Infrastructure
The May-June 2011 TR News explores issues related to public–private partnerships by examining how the model might help meet an agency's challenge to deliver transportation projects; the variety of arrangements to select from for projects; how to ensure value from the arrangements; ways to protect the public interest in long-term concessions; the appropriateness to U.S. contexts; how the model has worked in Europe; and more.
The May-June 2011 issue of TR News includes the following articles:
Public–Private Partnerships for Transportation: Filling Funding Gaps for Infrastructure
Challenges Mount for Traditional Transportation Funding: Are Public–Private Partnerships a U.S. Solution?
International Practices in Public–Private Partnerships: Synthesis and Discussion
Value from Public–Private Partnerships: Balancing Prescriptive and Performance Specifications from Design to Handback
Selecting Public–Private Partnerships for Transportation Projects: From Episodic to Programmatic Public-Sector Decision Making
Protecting the Public Interest in Long-Term Highway Concessions
Research Pays Off: Warm-Mix Asphalt Heating Up in Virginia
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