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Evaluating the Potential Economic Efficiency of Project Delivery Options

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01623264

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309442053

Abstract:

This paper illustrates a comparison of the incremental costs and benefits of alternative delivery options for highway projects that used the FHWA’s P3-VALUE analytic tool for much of the computation. The hypothetical example project consists of (a) upgrading an urban freeway with added express toll lanes, (b) possibly delivering the project via a public–private partnership concession, (c) possibly transferring the revenue risk back to the public agency via availability payments (APs), and (d) possibly substituting a hybrid payment mechanism that compensates the operator with a fixed AP plus shadow tolls paid on the basis of person throughput. Under the hybrid payment mechanism, the concessionaire would continue to set toll rates to ensure efficient operations (as under a normal toll concession), but all toll revenue would go to the public agency, as in an AP concession. The multipart payment strategy would potentially restore incentives for ensuring optimal utilization of the facility. The goal is to maximize economic efficiency, which is assessed by using benefit–cost analysis. The evaluation explores the conditions under which the features considered would be incrementally beneficial.

Monograph Accession #:

01629810

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-00056

Language:

English

Authors:

DeCorla-Souza, Patrick
Lee, Douglass B

Pagination:

pp 115–121

Publication Date:

2017

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2606
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309442053

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (10) ; Tables (4)

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 9:56AM

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