Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in Transportation, Vol I

lt;p> Simon Hakim is professor of economics and the director of the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University, US. He holds M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a M.Sc. degree in City and Regional Planning from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Economics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His special areas of research and teaching are privatization and Public-Private-Partnerships, economics of crime and security, private/public police, and homeland security. Dr. Hakim has published sixty-seven scientific articles in leading economic, criminal justice, security, and public policy journals. He has written over forty professional articles and written/edited nineteen books. Dr. Hakim has conducted several funded research and consulting projects on PPP, security, and public finance issues for the U.S. Departments of Justice and Labor, National Institute of Justice, Volunteers of America, the Commonwealth Foundation, the Independent Institute, the Alarm Industry Research and Education Foundation, cities like Philadelphia, Newark, and New-Castle County, DE, the Philadelphia International Airport, ADT Security, Vector Security, the private corrections industry, law firms, and other leading security companies.

Chapter 1. Public Private Partnerships in Transportation: Airports, Water Ports, Rail, Buses, and Taxis- AN OVERVIEW.- Chapter 2. Evaluating The Viability of The Ghana Airport Cargo Centre as Publica-Private Partnership Project.- Chapter 3. The role of individual actors in public-private partnership (PPP) projects: Insights from Madinah Airport in Saudi Arabia.- Chapter 4. Models, Expectations, And Reality In Airport Public Private Partnerships.- Chapter 5. Airport Privatization in the United States.- Chapter 6. Legal Impediments to Airport P3s in the United States.- Chapter 7. Public-Private Partnerships in Port Areas: Lessons Learned from Case Studies in Antwerp and Rotterdam.- Chapter 8. Seaport PPPs in the EU: Policy, Regulatory and Contractual Issues.- Chapter 9. Sustainable Strategies for Mass Rapid Transit PPPs.- Chapter 10. Rational Inattention in Non-Profit Public-Private Partnerships: The Las Vegas Monorail Bankruptcy Case.- Chapter 11. Public -Private Partnerships inDenver, CO: Analysis of the Role of PPPs in the Financing and Construction of Transportation Infrastructure in the USA.- Chapter 12. Governance of Public Private Partnerships: Lessons from the Italian Experience in Transportation Projects.- Chapter 13. Developing Urban Rail Using Public Private Partnership - A Case Study of the Gold Coast Light Rail Project.- Chapter 14. For Hire Vehicle Regulation, misunderstanding, mismatch, control and capture: the case of Vehicles for Hire and PPP.- Chapter 15. Using History to Develop Future Regulation of TNCs and Autonomous Taxis.- Chapter 16. Distinguishing Between Demand-Risk And Availability-Payment Public-Private Partnerships.