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Public-Private Partnerships by Leslie R Kellerman; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Public-Private Partnerships about?

Growing demands on the transportation system and constraints on public resources have led to calls for more private sector involvement in the provision of highway and transit infrastructure through what are known as “public-private partnerships” (PPPs). A PPP, broadly defined, is any arrangement whereby the private sector assumes more responsibility than is traditional for infrastructure planning, financing, design, construction, operation, and maintenance. This new book describes the wide variety of public-private partnerships in highways and transit, but focuses on the two types of highway PPPs that are generating the most debate: the leasing by the public sector to the private sector of existing infrastructure; and the building, leasing, and owning of new infrastructure by private entities. PPP proponents argue that, in addition to being the best hope for injecting additional resources into the surface freight and passenger transportation systems for upkeep and expansion, private sector involvement potentially reduces costs, project delivery time, and public sector risk, and may also improve project selection and project quality. Detractors, on the other hand, argue that the pot

Who reads Public-Private Partnerships?

Author

Leslie R Kellerman; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781606923580

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Transportation, Finance, Business