Lessons learned from Chile's highly successful experience in introducing private capital into the transport infrastructure sector. - To increase investment in infrastructure, in the early 1990s Chile's government introduced private capital into the transport infrastructure sector, covering roads...

This research sheds light on the relation of bus rapid transit and residential property values within walking distance to the system. The case study was Bogotá's Transmilenio (Colombia). This research conducted a city-wide econometric hedonic analysis with 2000 to 2004 Department of Housing...

CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Urban Rapid Transit as an Opportunity for Sustainable and Inclusive Development; CHAPTER 3. Deciding Whether to Develop an Urban Rail Project; CHAPTER 4. Project Management Planning; CHAPTER 5. Designing an Urban Rail Project; CHAPTER 6. Project Optimization;...

This paper reviews the incentive structure of concession contracts in several Latin American transit reforms. It also presents a conceptual analysis of the optimal design of concession contracts. The conceptual discussion and case studies reviewed indicate that payment to operators should be...

<italic>This paper provides a unifying framework to analyze whether a monopoly transit provider will under or over-supply frequency. To this end we couch the problem in term of Spence [(1975). Monopoly, quality and regulation.</italic> The Bell Journal of Economics, 6, <italic>417-429] who analyzed the incentives to...</italic>