Download or read book Supporting Better Decision Making in Transport Infrastructure in Spain Infrastructure Governance Review written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spain, as in most countries, the real obstacle to effective and efficient delivery of key infrastructure is not the availability of finance, but rather problems of governance. This review examines the transport infrastructure governance framework in Spain against OECD good practices. It identifies the main governance bottlenecks for the development of transport infrastructure projects and provides a comparison with what other countries have done to alleviate similar bottlenecks.
Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Private and Public Investment in Transport Report of the Eighty First Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 11 12 May 1989 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1990-03-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Round Table 81 takes stock of the problems of inadequate transport links at its periphery and considers the contribution private capital could bring in funding transport infrastructure.
Download or read book Transport Infrastructure in ECMT Countries Profiles and Prospects Monographs written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication analyses, on an homogeneous basis, the inland transport infrastructures, the investment forecasts and the main traffic flows in 30 European countries of the ECMT.
Download or read book Financing Transport Infrastructure written by Sheila Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Administrative Space Balkan Realities written by Lucica Matei and published by Matei Lucica. This book was released on 2011 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Urban Studies Improving Transport Planning for Accessible Cities written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are places of opportunity. They provide not just jobs but a whole range of public, cultural, social and consumption amenities. Transport is what connects people to these opportunities and cities provide access with varying degrees of success – especially when it comes to modes of transport that favour a green transition. This report argues that building sustainable transport networks for accessible cities requires a holistic planning approach, a sound institutional framework, reliable sources of funding, strong governmental capacity, and should build on community engagement.
Download or read book Investment and the use of Tax and Toll Revenues in the Transport Sector written by Andre de Palma and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport infrastructure developments will depend increasingly on the level of user charges. One reason is the ongoing liberalization of the EU transport sector, especially for air and rail. Another is the trend towards implementing tolls and other user charges on roads. It is expected that user charges will progressively replace government subsidies for infrastructure expansion and maintenance. Revenues from user charges may also be used to cross subsidize other transport modes. The surplus anticipated on urban roads could be used to fund infrastructure and operation of public transport and/or non-urban roads.This book brings together both the theory and the current practice of user charges, tolls and revenue use in European countries. It examines public finance aspects such as earmarking, as well as public management aspects of different pricing and revenue use principles. A set of guidelines is developed for a better use of toll and tax revenues. The set of guidelines is tested with a new cost benefit tool in case studies that cover France, Germany, Norway , Switzerland and the UK.Research in Transportation Economics is now available online at ScienceDirect — full-text online of volumes 6 onwards.
Download or read book European Seaports Law written by E. van Hooydonk and published by Maklu. This book was released on 2003 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, the European Commission published its so-called Ports Package, a first attempt at developing a European policy for seaports. The Ports Package includes a Directive on Market Access to Port Services, which will influence the port industry thoroughly and lead to fundamental changes in daily port operations. In this volume, academics as well as practising lawyers from France, Ireland, Italy and Belgium describe the legal framework for the several branches of the port sector, recalling the far-reaching practical implications of existing general EU law and discussing the latest versions of the Port Services Directive proposal. Completed by authoritative views from the head of the Commission's ports unit, a specialist MEP, and representatives from both the public and the private port sector, this book offers a fairly complete overview of existing port law as well as the main points of concern in the policy debate. Its purpose is to serve both as a policy background document and as a working tool for public and private port players, as well as for academics and lawyers.
Download or read book The Econometrics of Major Transport Infrastructures written by Emile Quinet and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major transport infrastructures are increasingly in the news as both the engineering and financing possibilities come together. However, these projects have also demonstrated the inadequacy of most existing approaches to forecasting their impacts and their overall evaluation. This collection of papers from a conference organised by the Applied Econometric Association represents a state of the art look at issues of forecasting traffic, developing pricing strategies and estimating the impacts in a set of papers by leading authorities from Europe, North America and Japan.
Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Interurban Transport Costs Report of the Ninety Eighth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 2 3 December 1993 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table gives a clearer picture of the whole range of interurban transport problems. It provides both theoretical analyses and specific case studies, and explores such fundamental matters as the actual social utility of transport.
Download or read book Project Risks written by Geneviève Zembri-Mary and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those tasked with the planning and construction of infrastructure and development operations face an increasingly uncertain context in which they must address risks across a number of different fields. These range from the environmental and archaeological to the social, political and financial. As a consequence, the formal and informal practices of stakeholders often incorporate projections of risk and opportunity. Project Risks analyzes this paradigm shift. It reviews the origin and nature of these uncertainties, and the practices implemented by the actors to mitigate or take advantage of them. Paradoxically, these practices generate new risks and power relations that are not compatible with the collaborative planning model. These paradoxes force the rethinking of practices such as project territorialization, risk taking in planning and the responsibility of actors, as well as the societal and political choices that must be made between the realization of projects and the protection of the environment.
Download or read book Financing Infrastructure written by Richard M. Bird and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada’s urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended, and it is necessary that public housing as well as schools, health centres, and government offices are brought up to current standards. But few cities have room to raise additional revenue, and the federal and provincial governments to which they turn for financial support are already in deficit, so who is going to pay for all of this? Bringing together perspectives and case studies from across Canada, the US, and Europe, Financing Infrastructure argues that the answer to the question “Who should pay?” should always be “users.” Headed by two of Canada’s foremost experts on municipal finance, this book provides a closer look at why charging user fees makes sense, how much users should pay, how to charge fees well and where present processes can be improved, and how to convince the politicians and the public of the importance of pricing infrastructure correctly. Across the disciplines of public policy, urban studies, and economics, almost no one is looking at the extent to which users should play a role in infrastructure planning. Financing Infrastructure contends that the users, not federal and provincial taxpayers, should start paying directly for their cities’ repairs and expansions. Contributors include Richard M. Bird (University of Toronto), Bernard Dafflon (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Robert D. Ebel (Local Governance Innovation and Development), Harry Kitchen (Trent University), Jean-Philippe Meloche (Université de Montréal), Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto), Enid Slack (University of Toronto), Almos T. Tassonyi (University of Calgary), Lindsay M. Tedds (University of Victoria), François Vaillancourt (Université de Montréal), and Yameng Wang (World Bank).
Download or read book tudes conomiques de l OCDE Hongrie 2004 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans l’examen 2004 de l’économie hongroise, l’OCDE constate que ce pays a réalisé une croissance rapide et s’apprête à rattraper les autres économies européennes, mais que cette performance elle-même pose de nouveaux problèmes. L’étude est assortie ...
Download or read book The Making of Grand Paris written by Theresa Enright and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city. In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation system, the Grand Paris Express, would connect the affluent city proper with the low-income suburbs; streamlined institutions would replace fragmented governance structures. Grand Paris is more than a redevelopment plan; it is a new paradigm for urbanism. In this first English-language examination of Grand Paris, Theresa Enright offers a critical analysis of the early stages of the project, considering whether it can achieve its twin goals of economic competitiveness and equality. Enright argues that by orienting the city around growth and marketization, Grand Paris reproduces the social and spatial hierarchies it sets out to address. For example, large expenditures for the Grand Paris Express are made not for the public good but to increase the attractiveness of the region to private investors, setting off a real estate boom, encouraging gentrification, and leaving many residents still unable to get from here to there. Enright describes Grand Paris as an example of what she calls “grand urbanism,” large-scale planning that relies on infrastructural megaprojects to reconfigure urban regions in pursuit of speculative redevelopment. Democracy and equality suffer under processes of grand urbanism. Given the logic of commodification on which Grand Paris is based, these are likely to suffer as the project moves forward.
Download or read book ECMT Round Tables What Markets Are There For Transport by Inland Waterways written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-12-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table identified a number of policy measures which could help to promote development in the inland waterways sector in Europe.
Download or read book Regulation and Finance in the Port Industry written by Claudio Ferrari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the latest organizational, regulatory, and governance issues of main port systems, linking them to the financial aspects that are currently in use regarding investments in the port industry. A general review of port management and operations is complimented by analysis of country specific systems and a look at how ports could develop in the future. This book aims to examine how different port organizational and regulatory contexts affect port investment practices and related financial tools. The book is of use to researchers and practitioners interested in maritime economics and transportation studies.
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