International Handbook on Mega-Projects

Edited by Hugo Priemus and Bert van Wee

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This comprehensive and accessible Handbook presents state-of-the-art research on the decision-making processes in the deliverance of mega-projects – large infrastructure projects for the transportation of people and/or goods.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781781002292
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Mega-projects: high ambitions, complex decision-making, different actors, multiple impacts , pp 1-8

Hugo Priemus and Bert van Wee

Ch 2 Strategic and tactical performance of mega-projects – between successful failures and inefficient successes , pp 11-33

Knut Samset

Ch 3 The shaping of large engineering projects , pp 34-56

Donald Lessard and Roger Miller

Ch 4 Real-world decision-making on mega-projects: politics, bias and strategic behaviour , pp 57-82

Martijn Leijten

Ch 5 Dealing with the complexity, uncertainties and risk of megaprojects: redundancy, resilience and adaptivity , pp 83-110

Hugo Priemus, Marian Bosch-Rekveldt and Mendel Giezen

Ch 6 New Public Management and the new features of strategic behaviour , pp 111-130

Ernst ten Heuvelhof and Martijn Leijten

Ch 7 Public–private partnerships in mega-projects: successes and tensions , pp 133-157

Matti Siemiatycki

Ch 8 The political economy of urban infrastructure , pp 158-181

Kevin Dwarka and Eran Feitelson

Ch 9 Public–private partnership in developing and governing mega-projects , pp 182-208

Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve

Ch 10 Mega-projects in intermodal freight transport: innovation adoption , pp 209-241

Arjan van Binsbergen, Rob Konings, Lóri Tavasszy and Ron van Duin

Ch 11 Multi-actor and multi-criteria analysis in evaluating mega-projects , pp 242-266

Cathy Macharis and Peter Nijkamp

Ch 12 CBA: ex ante evaluation of mega-projects , pp 269-290

Bert van Wee and Piet Rietveld

Ch 13 The use of CBA in decision-making on mega-projects: empirical evidence , pp 291-312

Jan Anne Annema

Ch 14 Long-term impacts of mega-projects: the discount rate , pp 313-332

Carl Koopmans and Piet Rietveld

Ch 15 Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions , pp 333-355

Chantal C. Cantarelli and Bent Flyvbjerg

Ch 16 Ethics and the ex ante evaluation of mega-projects , pp 356-378

Bert van Wee

Ch 17 The wider economic impacts of mega-projects in transport , pp 381-397

Roger Vickerman

Ch 18 Mega-projects: new challenges to cope with climate change and energy transition , pp 398-417

Jan Anne Annema and Hugo Priemus

Ch 19 Road vehicle automation: elephant in the infrastructure room , pp 418-444

Richard Gilbert

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