Communal road networks in Switzerland: Forms of new Public Private Partnership (PPP) Cooperations for the maintenance (ASTRA2003/007)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Due to the globalisation a development towards privatisation of infrastructure can be observed nationally and internationally. Worldwide, various investigations show that privately managed public infrastructures show higher cost-efficiency and enable more flexible utilisation as well as change of usage.
The main research question of this project is the split and allocation of tasks in planning, project implementation and actual road maintenance of communal road networks in Switzerland to either private businesses or to municipalities.
Objectives:
The objective of the research project is to develop and design new models of Public Private Partnership (PPP) - Cooperations for road maintenence. Such PPP models must take the following three aspects into consideration: Conservation (Technology), Management, and Operation. Furthermore, contractual concepts for such models will be established within the proposed research project.
On the background of different strategies for maintenance, process-chains for the operational and structural maintenance will be developed.
Methodology:
Literature research, benchmarking, interviews, process modeling, validation processes of theoretical concepts.
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