Changing the way we pay for infrastructure: a New Zealand perspective

Governments in most industrial countries are wrestling with how to create an efficient and sustainable transport system at minimal public expense. Around the world, in different ways, different models are being proposed, which seek to balance these costs of infrastructure provision - so critical to economic transformation goals - with the benefits of making those costs more 'real' to users. This paper will explore: 1. Should we be spending government funding to curb the problems stemming from our current transportation system?; 2. Do we need to create controls and incentives to limit the ever-increasing rise in automobile use?; 3. Should the public be paying for the roads as they do for every other utility?; 4. What are the options? How might international experience be applied in NZ?

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• Authors:
  • Body, A
• Conference:
  • World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, 14th, 2007, Beijing, China
• Publication Date: 2007-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 14th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Beijing, 2007: ITS for a better life: proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Economics; Financing; Highways; Infrastructure; Policy
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road design and management
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• ATRI Terms: Infrastructure; Policy; Road costs; Road economics; Road funding; Transport economics
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01387331
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 9787900209443
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 10:20PM