Business Models for Enhancing Funding and Enabling Financing of Infrastructure in Transport (BENEFIT).

BENEFIT takes an innovative approach by analysing funding schemes within an inter-related system. Funding schemes aresuccessful (or not) depending on the Business Model that generates them. The performance of the Business Model isaffected by the implementation context and the transport mode. It is matched successfully (or not) by a financing scheme.Relations between actors are described by a governance model (contracting arrangements). These are key elements inTransport Infrastructure Provision, Operation and Maintenance. Success is a measure of the appropriate matching ofelements. Within BENEFIT funding and financing schemes are analysed in this respect. Describing these key elementsthrough their characteristics and attributes and clustering each of them is the basis of, first, developing a generic framework.

Keywords:PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (PPP'S), TRANSPORT COSTS, TRANSPORT ECONOMICS

Disciplines:Applied economics, Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Microeconomics, Tourism, Law

Project type:Collaboration project