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Policy Issues in U.S. Transportation Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from Australia, Research Report 09-15
Mineta Transportation Institute
  • David Czerwinski, San Jose State University
  • Richard Geddes
Description

In this report, the authors examine Australia’s experience with transportation public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the lessons that experience holds for the use of PPPs in the United States. Australia now has decades of experience in PPP use in transportation, and has used the approach to deliver billions of dollars in project value. Although this report explores a range of issues, the authors focus on four policy issues that have been salient in the United States: (1) how the risks inherent in PPP contracts should be distributed across public and private sector partners; (2) when and how to use non-compete (or compensation) clauses in PPP contracts; (3) how concerns about monopoly power are best addressed; and (4) the role and importance of concession length. The study examines those and other questions by surveying the relevant literature on PPP international use. The authors also interviewed 23 Australian PPP experts from the academic, public and private sectors, and distilled lessons from those interviews.

Publication Date
6-1-2010
Publication Type
Report
MTI Project
2807
Keywords
  • Financing,
  • Highway construction,
  • Public private partnerships,
  • Tolls,
  • Rates,
  • fares and tolls
Disciplines
Citation Information
David Czerwinski and Richard Geddes. "Policy Issues in U.S. Transportation Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from Australia, Research Report 09-15" (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_czerwinski/11/