Where do We Stand on Transport Infrastructure Deregulation and Public-Private Partnership

The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but after a shock to the sector takes place the public sector returns as regulator, owner or financier; after a while the public sector runs into problems and eventually finds a hybrid solution to ensure the survival of the sector. This paper reviews the effectiveness of transport infrastructure deregulation from three angles: efficiency, fiscal and users' viewpoint. The paper emphasizes the difficulties and strong political commitments required to make the reforms sustainable and argues that governments willing to make corrections to the reform path are faced with the need to address recurrent and emerging issues in transport systems: tariff structure, quality (timetable, safety, environment), access rules for captive shippers, the trend toward rebundling and decrease in intrasectoral competition, multimodalism and the stimulus through yardstick competition.

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  European Conference of Ministers of Transport

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• Authors:
  • Estache, Antonio
  • Serebrisky, Timas
• Conference:
  • Transport Services: The Limits of (De)Regulation. Report of the One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Round Table on Transport Economics
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2004-5-13 to 2004-5-14
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 33-61
• Monograph Title: Transport Services: The Limits of (De)Regulation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access control (Communications); Competition; Deregulation; Developed countries; Developing countries; Governments; Harbors; Infrastructure; Multimodal transportation; Politics; Ports; Privatization; Public private partnerships; Quality of service; Railroads; Regulation; Tariffs
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Marine Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01052010
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9282123456
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2007 10:36AM