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Public-Private Partnerships: Case Studies on Infrastructure Development

Abstract

  • Public-Private Partnerships: Case Studies in Infrastructure Development demystifies this innovative solution to the challenges of designing, financing, building, and operating major infrastructure projects. In today's world, partnerships between public agencies-federal, state, and local-and private companies are an increasingly popular policy tool. At a time when infrastructure in the United States and elsewhere is aging and public budgets are shrinking, public-private partnerships (PPPs) permit planners to leverage limited funds, while private firms embrace these relationships as an unfolding and potentially profitable global market. But what separates a successful partnership from one that fails to deliver on its promise?

    In this book, Sidney Levy brings a balanced perspective to the history and development of the PPP movement. He outlines different approaches to defining and planning a PPP, supplemented by a history of PPP toll roads in the United States. He describes the key players in a PPP deal and provides case studies of the projects in Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Canada, and Mexico.

    This compendium of practical detail on public-private partnerships is essential reading for civil engineers, engineering managers, construction contractors, developers, and government officials involved in or contemplating a major infrastructure project.

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Front Matter
i–xiii
    Chapter 1:
    The Public—Private Partnership Movement
    1–27
      Chapter 2:
      Tools for Implementing PPPs
      29–56
        Chapter 3:
        The Players: Developers and Financers
        57–82
          Chapter 4:
          The Federal Role in PPPs
          83–118
            Chapter 5:
            Virginia Department of Transportation
            119–152
              Chapter 6:
              The Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road
              153–183
                Chapter 7:
                Texas Strategic Plan Includes Public—Private Partnerships
                185–216
                  Chapter 8:
                  Florida’s Public—Private Partnership Endeavors
                  217–249
                    Chapter 9:
                    What Some Other States Are Doing
                    251–287
                      Chapter 10:
                      The Corridors of the Future
                      280–327
                        Chapter 11:
                        Our Neighbors to the South and to the North
                        329–362
                          Chapter 12:
                          Looking Down the Road
                          363–390
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                            Index
                            391–403