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Transport pricing and Public-Private Partnerships in theory: Issues and Suggestions

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  • Evenhuis, Emil
  • Vickerman, Roger

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This chapter offers a theoretical examination of the following questions: what are the issues that arise when Social Marginal Cost Pricing is to be incorporated in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs); and how may these issues be dealt with? We first briefly discuss Public-Private Partnerships in transport: what are the defining characteristics and what are the main types that exist in the different modes of transport? Next we consider the economics of Public-Private Partnerships, in particular from the viewpoint of incentives. Subsequently we identify and examine the issues that arise when Social Marginal Cost Pricing is to be incorporated in PPPs as a regulation with regard to pricing in the transport sector. Lastly, we investigate the possibilities of resolving these issues.

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  • Evenhuis, Emil & Vickerman, Roger, 2010. "Transport pricing and Public-Private Partnerships in theory: Issues and Suggestions," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(1), pages 6-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:retrec:v:30:y:2010:i:1:p:6-14
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