China has experienced rapid urbanization in the past three decades, which has successfully brought unparalleled economic growth, employment creation and improvement in living standards. This paper is focused on exploring the feasibility of establishing a pooled Infrastructure Financing Facility...

Urban transit in the United States has long been dominated by government ownership and regulation, and has been declining steadily in ridership and productivity (APTA 1995). An economist-cum-policy maker would seek to inject competition and entrepreneurship into the sector by privatizing it. The...

The note briefly outlines the impacts, and lessons of the Transport Sector Reform Project in Cameroon, whose objectives aimed at developing private participation, and continue the restructuring of transport sector utilities. While some activities, such as railway operations are being partly...

The paper studies contracting practices in the US transit industry. It employs the methodsof transaction cost economics and public choice theory to develop an empirical model of buscontracting in the US transit industry. The empirical results shed light on why transit services inthe US remain...

I arrived here at the UC Transportation Center just nine months ago. A former lawyer and aspiring writer, I had only a layman's knowledge of transportation systems, mostly based on my personal experiences.  Growing up in Hilo, Hawaii, I thought traffic jams meant having to circle the parking...