Transportation

Policy-Level Partnerships and Project-Based Partnerships

Bibliographic Data

ID5010425
AuthorsJames A Dunn (Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume43
Issue1
Pages92-106
Publication date1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027649921955173
OpenAlexW2046059377
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited5

Public-private partnerships are common in transportation. The most significant are policy partnerships in which the public provides a long-term investment to create the basic infrastructure for a transportation mode. Highways are the most spectacular case of a policy partnership; governments build roads, while private motorists invest in vehicles, fuel, insurance, and so forth. Policy partnerships have also been established in declining transport modes, for example, Amtrak for intercity passenger trains and federal subsidies for urban transit. There are also project-based partnerships in which politicians offer incentives for private capital to invest at specific sites. The goal of such partnerships is often not transportation, but urban redevelopment. As policy shifts toward reducing transportation's negative externalities, new possibilities for public-private partnerships emerge. After decades of wrangling over auto emissions and energy standards, Detroit and Washington created the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) to develop dramatically cleaner and more fuel-efficient automobiles

Business · Economics · Externality · General partnership · Incentive · Investment (military) · Political science · Public transport · Public–private partnership · Subsidy · Train · Transport engineering · Engineering · Finance · Transportation and Mobility Innovations · Transportation Planning and Optimization

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