This paper presents an empirical analysis of the cross-country and cross-industry determinants of public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements. We find that PPPs tend to be more common in countries where governments suffer from heavy debt burdens and where aggregate demand and market size are...

This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is implementing, strategies, policies, and plans...

The civil and environmental engineering disciplines have identified the levels of knowledge about sustainability that are desirable for students to achieve as they graduate with a bachelor’s degree, as well as sustainability-related competencies to be obtained during a master’s degree, and...

Gerade im öffentlichen Hochbau scheint es vermehrt zu Bauzeit- und vor allem Kostenüberschreitungen zu kommen, die auch regelmäßig vom Bundesrechnungshof beanstandet werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet die vorliegende Arbeit die haushaltsrechtlichen Grundlagen bei der Veranschlagung...

Are there substantial changes in the relationship between women and engineering in recent times? This is a fascinating question to explore especially since it has been so little studies especially in India. This study attempts to understand women engineers in India, situating them within the...

This paper introduces a new on-demand air service (ODAS) for intercity transportation and develops traveler behavior models to predict the probability of individuals switching from the usual preferred mode of intercity transportation to the new ODAS under a rage of plausible scenarios in terms...

The transportation sector is a significant contributor to current global climatic problems, one of the most prominent problems that today's society faces. In this dissertation, three complementary problems are addressed to support emissions reduction efforts by providing tools to help reduce...

The US government annually spends billions of dollars on transit projects. State transit agencies as the owners of these projects hire designers, construction contractors, vendors, and consultants to execute the project. An appropriate project delivery method can assist them in achieving the...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the cost and production structure of mass transit systems using both panel and time series data. Accepting cost minimization (subject to a set of constraints that reflect demand, regulatory, and urban setting conditions) as the economic...

Balancing the needs of all surface transportation modes safely and efficiently is an important objective, and especially critical at signalized intersections where turning vehicles and pedestrians share the crosswalk. This thesis identifies a significant gap in the literature for evaluating the...