International handbook on mega-projects / edited by Hugo Priemus, Professor Emeritus of System Innovation and Spatial Development, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology and Scientific Director, TRAIL Research School, The Netherlands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Priemus, Hugo, 1942-

Wee, Bert van.

Series:

Elgar original reference.

Elgar original reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Risk management.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Finance.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elger, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive and accessible Handbook presents state-of-the-art research on the decision-making processes in the deliverance of mega-projects - large infrastructure projects for the transportation of people and/or goods. The expert contributors explore how decisions are made at different stages in mega-projects and the multi-actor relationships between public and private partners. They evaluate the perspectives and pitfalls in determining the costs and benefits of a mega-project ex-ante, and examine the wider impacts of mega-projects, including issues such as regional growth, energy trans

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Mega-projects: high ambitions, complex decision-making, different actors, multiple impacts; PART I DECISION-MAKING ON MEGA-PROJECTS; 2. Strategic and tactical performance of mega-projects - between successful failures and inefficient successes; 3. The shaping of large engineering projects; 4. Real-world decision-making on mega-projects: politics, bias and strategic behaviour; 5. Dealing with the complexity, uncertainties and risk of mega-projects: redundancy, resilience and adaptivity

6. New Public Management and the new features of strategic behaviourPART II PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND MULTI-ACTOR ANALYSIS; 7. Public-private partnerships in megaprojects: successes and tensions; 8. The political economy of urban infrastructure; 9. Public-private partnership in developing and governing mega-projects; 10. Mega-projects in intermodal freight transport: innovation adoption; 11. Multi-actor and multi-criteria analysis in evaluating mega-projects; PART III COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: EX ANTE EVALUATION OF MEGA- PROJECTS; 12. CBA: ex ante evaluation of mega-projects

13. The use of CBA in decision-making on mega-projects: empirical evidence14. Long-term impacts of mega-projects: the discount rate; 15. Mega-projects' cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions; 16. Ethics and the ex ante evaluation of mega-projects; PART IV WIDER IMPACTS: REGIONAL GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY; 17. The wider economic impacts of mega-projects in transport; 18. Mega-projects: new challenges to cope with climate change and energy transition; 19. Road vehicle automation: elephant in the infrastructure room; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 20, 2013).

ISBN:

1-78100-230-4

OCLC:

865331356