Public Transportation: Federal Project Approval Process Remains a Barrier to Greater Private Sector Role and DOT Could Enhance Efforts to Assist Project Sponsors
Abstract
In the United States, the private sector role in delivering and financing transit projects through alternative approaches, such as public-private partnerships, has been more limited than in international projects. The private sector role in U.S. projects has focused more on how they are delivered rather than how they are financed, while the private sector role in international projects has focused on both project delivery and financing. Since 2000, seven new large-scale construction projects funded through FTAs Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Program New Starts program have been completed using one of two alternative project delivery approaches, and none of these projects included private sector financing. In 2005, Congress authorized FTA to establish a pilot program to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of these alternative approaches and how the New Starts Program could better allow for them.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- AD1180807
Entities
People
- Amanda K. Miller
- Amy Rosewarne
- Bert Japikse
- Carol Henn
- Jay Cherlow
- Jim Wozny
- Joanie Lofgren
- Maureen Luna-long
- Patrick Dudley
- Susan A. Fleming
- Tina Paek
- Tina W. Sherman
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office