Decision-Making on Mega-Projects

Edited by Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg and Bert van Wee

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Abstract: This book enlarges the understanding of decision-making on mega-projects and suggest recommendations for a more effective, efficient and democratic approach. Authors from different scientific disciplines address various aspects of the decision-making process, such as management characteristics and cost–benefit analysis, planning and innovation and competition and institutions. The subject matter is highly diverse, but certain questions remain at the forefront. For example, how do we deal with protracted preparation processes, how do we tackle risks and uncertainties, and how can we best divide the risks and responsibilities among the private and public players throughout the different phases of the project?

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781845427375
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Scope of the Book

Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg and Bert van Wee

Ch 2 Management Characteristics of Mega-Projects

Hans de Bruijn and Martijn Leijten

Ch 3 Ex-ante Evaluation of Mega-Projects: Methodological Issues and Cost–Benefit Analysis

Bert van Wee and Lóránt A. Tavasszy

Ch 4 Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Wider Economic Benefits from Mega- Projects

Roger Vickerman

Ch 5 Mega-Projects and Contested Information

Hans de Bruijn and Martijn Leijten

Ch 6 How to Improve the Early Stages of Decision-making on Mega-Projects?

Hugo Priemus

Ch 7 Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs

Bent Flyvbjerg

Ch 8 Evolving Strategy: Risk Management and the Shaping of Mega-Projects

Roger Miller and Donald Lessard

Ch 9 How to Overcome Major Weaknesses in Mega-Projects? The Norwegian Approach

Knut Samset

Ch 10 Public–Private Partnership and Mega-Projects

Joop Koppenjan

Ch 11 Innovations in the Planning of Mega-Projects

Werner Rothengatter

Ch 12 The Cost of the Technological Sublime: Daring Ingenuity and the New San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Ch 13 Provision and Management of Dedicated Railway Systems: How to Arrange Competition

Didier van de Velde and Ernst F. ten Heuvelhof

Ch 14 Rail Infrastructure at Major European Hub Airports: The Role of Institutional Settings

Moshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld

Ch 15 Drawing Institutional Lessons Across Countries on Making Transport Infrastructure Policy

W. Martin de Jong

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