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A Review of Institutional Arrangements for Road Asset Management: Lessons for the developing world
This paper presents an analysis of the structures adopted in selected countries for the management and financing of roads (China, Croatia, Brazil, Slovenia, New Zealand, the Slovak Republic and the…
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Reform, Commercialization and Private Sector Participation in Railways in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The World Bank is currently undertaking a review of private sector participation in infrastructure in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. The intention is to write a regional report…
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A Tale of Three Cities: Urban rail concessions in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Manila
This study focuses the role of private concessions in developing urban mass rapid transit systems in East Asian cities. It is primarily founded on the experiences of Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Manila…
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The BRT Standard and Best Practices 2013
The BRT Standard is an evaluation tool for world-class bus rapid transit (BRT) based on international best practices. It is also the centerpiece of a global effort by leaders in bus rapid transit…
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Short-Form Generic Risk Allocation Table for Toll Roads
This short-form risk allocation table for toll roads divides risks into categories and provides a brief description, potential causes and mitigation options for each risk.
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Lessons Learned from PPIAF Activities: Highways Maintenance PPPs
This short summary gives a high-level view of the benefits and challenges of highway maintenance PPPs. The lessons learned include affordability, funding, contract structure, risk…
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Lessons Learned In Output and Performance-Based Road Maintenance Contracts
This issue brief discusses five key lessons learned from PPIAF and the World Bank Group’s experiences in using output-based road maintenance contracts. By delivering efficient, cost-effective and…
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Mobilizing Private Funding - The Case of the National Highways of India
This case study reviews the development of highways in India and shows the possible shift in infrastructure financing from traditional public procurement to a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model…
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Colombia: Ruta del Sol
Good highway infrastructure is essential to economic development. The Colombian government backed this concept in July 2010 when it awarded the concession of the third and final section for the…
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Philippines: NAIA Expressway
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Philippines on a 30-year concession to design, finance, construct, and operate the NAIA Expressway.
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Private Capital for Railway Development China Transport Topics No. 10
China is considering ways to attract additional capital to finance investment in railways. Worldwide, private capital has been attracted to the railway sector through a range of mechanisms including…
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Fostering the Development of Greenfield Mining-Related Transport Infrastructure - Critical Factors To Consider When Designing Third-Party Financed Shared Use Transport Mining Infrastructure
Based on the publication on Fostering the Development of Greenfield Mining-Related Transport Infrastructure, this short brief note reviews the critical factors that need to be considered when…
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The Challenges to Small Caribbean Ports
Report discussing port sector reform approach for smaller islands in the Caribbean, faced with the very particular challenge, where the port is the gateway in and out of the country.
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Multiple Ports of Call versus Hub-and-Spoke
Hub-and-spoke systems in containerized maritime transport often bring significant cost advantages, benefiting the various parties to the trade. Yet, comparison of a unit cost of the…
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Port and Maritime Transport Challenges in West and Central Africa
Port and Maritime Transport Challenges in West and Central Africa
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Brazil: Suape Container Terminal
As part of a major port sector reform program, the government of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco hired IFC as the principal advisor on the public-private partnershipfor the first…
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Benin: Port of Cotonou
Benin’s port of Cotonou is a potential gateway to landlocked West African countries, but high shipping costs, low efficiency, and poor logistical facilities have kept it from becoming a key…
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Niger: Dry Port
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Niger on the implementation of a 20-year concession to build, develop and operate a dry port project in Dosso and Niamey.
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Madagascar: Port of Toamasina
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Madagascar to structure a 20-year concession for the operation, maintenance, financing, rehabilitation, and development of the container…
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Port Investment and Container Shipping Markets
Large-scale port projects have irreversible effects on land use and multiple impacts on the local economy and local community. They affect the way that the regional and national economy operates as a…
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Handshake Issue #6: Air & Sea PPPs
Handshake Issue #6: Air & Sea & PPPs examines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) push air and sea transport development forward with greater speed and richer benefits.
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Airport Economics in Latin America and the Caribbean
The book presents a positive and unbiased analysis of events, rather than a normative analysis of what should be done to reform the airport sector or to attract private participation. It focuses on…
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Case-Study on Delhi Airport Metro Express
This case was written by O.P. Agarwal of the World Bank and Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez of the Harvard Kennedy School. The case is intended to serve as a basis for class room discussion only. It does not…
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Investment in Air Transport Infrastructure
This paper discusses the development of appropriate private sector participation (PSP) to optimize the provision of air transport infrastructure (ATI). It is aimed primarily at government policy…
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Public-Private Transportation Act Guideline : Virginia Department of Transportation.
Section 21: “Unsolicited Proposals” sets out how intellectual property in unsolicited proposals will be dealt with.