Toll Road PPPs: Identifying, Mitigating and Managing Traffic Risk

Through PPP models, toll revenues can be used to service private sources of finance that can enable fiscally-constrained governments to fund new road construction, improve existing roads and ensure long-term high quality maintenance. However, the credit quality of these kind of PPPs and the associated cost and availability of finance are heavily dependent on project parties being able to accurately forecast traffic and revenues over a horizon sometimes decades in the future.