Public-private partnerships favor roads, not evenly spread

Uneven project development

Roha Teferra, Aug 02, 11.

Public-private partnerships may result in uneven patterns of transportation investment and development and tend to be used more for roads over transit, according to a new study published in the Environment and Planning Journal.

The study “examines the extent to which PPPs have actually been used to deliver urban transportation infrastructure, and whether this model of project delivery has redressed historically uneven patters of global infrastructure investment.” Author Matti Siemiatycki argues that “these uneven patterns of project development are explained by the three interrelated factors: overlapping jurisdictions in urban governance, project risk profiles, and market interest.”