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Privatizing Transportation Systems

Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat, and Gary Bowman, eds.

This volume studies privatization in transportation: airports, water ports, roads, and mass transit. Privatization can be implemented in financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the transportation system; the motivation is the belief that the private sector can be more efficient than the public sector, and the fact that public funds have become scarce.

The focus of this volume is on ideas and innovations for: expanding the role of the private sector in U.S. transportation projects; private financing of urban transportation; airport privatization; water port improvement; toll roads; and competitive contracting for transit services. The distinguished list of contributors includes the co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics, William Vickrey.

$75. 368 pages.
ISBN: 0-275-94807-2.
Publication date: November 1996.
Praeger Publishers, division of Greenwood Publishing Group.

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Contents

1. Review and Analysis of Privatization Efforts in Transportation
Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat, and Gary Bowman

2. Ideas and Innovations in Developing Transportation Projects: A Search for Alternative Mechanisms Involving the Private Sector
Yuval Cohen

3. Developing Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure
William H. Payson and Steven A. Steckler

4. Creating Financing Options for Urban Transportation Privatization
Duane Windsor

5. The Conflict Between Government Owned and Privately Operated Airports
Robert L. Bogan

6. The Benefits and Costs of Airport Privatization
Eleanor D. Craig

7. Evaluating the Privatizing of a Small Airport
Jack M. Reilly

8. Port Privatization: An Historical and Public Administration Prospective
Jean Grosdidier de Matons

9. Strategies for Improving Port System Performance: Worldwide Experience
Anatoly Hochstein

10. The Effects of the Post Intermodial Surface Transportation Act of 1991 on Financing Toll Roads
Robert W. Poole, Jr.

11. Selling the Roads
John Semmens

12. Introducing Market Forces to the Use of Public Roads: A Stage Prior to Privatization
Gabriel Roth

13. Privatization and Marketization of Transport
William Vickrey

14. Lessons From Road Privatization Experience
Carl B. Williams

15. Applying Competitive Incentives to Public Transit
Wendell Cox and Jean Love

16. The Competitive Contracting of Public Transit Services in San Diego
Elliot P. Hurwitz

17. Privatizing the New York City Subway
Charles A. M. de Bartolome and James B. Ramsey

18. Government Creation and the Privatization of An American Railroad
Eric W. Beshers and Paul Seidenstat

Editors and Contributors

Simon Hakim has been with Temple University since 1975, and is currently professor of economics. He has published over fifty scientific articles and has edited five books as well as having conducted funded research projects for governmental agencies including the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Labor and City of Philadelphia and private companies. His work centers on analysis of criminal behavior, police operations, and privatization of various types of institutions. He serves as a consultant to security companies in the U.S. and abroad and is a research fellow to several research foundations.

Paul Seidenstat has been on the faculty of Temple University since 1967 and is currently associate professor of economics and formerly was director of the graduate program. He has been principal investigator for several research projects for federal government agencies and has served in local governments as finance director and financial advisor. His research has been in the area of state and local government finance and management and urban and environmental economics and he has published two books and several articles in these fields.

Gary Bowman has been associate professor of economics at Temple University since 1973. His research focuses on applications of microeconomics including public and managerial decisions and policy in such areas as privatization, regulation, and antitrust. He has published approximately fifteen articles and headed funded research projects from the National Science Foundation and other sources.

Charles A. M. de Bartolome is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado.

Eric W. Beshers is a transportation consultant in Washington, D.C.

Robert L. Bogan is assistant manager of the Morristown, N.J. Municipal Airport.

Yuval Cohen is an economist with Parsons Brinckerhoff Privatization, Inc., New York, NY. and has written extensively in the field of privatization.

Wendell Cox manages the Wendell Cox Consultancy and has worked for many years on transportation projects.

Eleanor D. Craig is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE. She has researched and written several articles in field of state and local finance.

Jean Grosdidier de Matons is a consultant to the World Bank on transportation.

Anatoly Hochstein is Director and Distinquished Chair Professor, National Ports & Waterways Institute, Louisiana State University and the author of many works on port management.

Elliot P. Hurwitz is Senior Planner, Metropolitan Transit Development Board in San Diego, CA.

Jean Love is associated with Wendell Cox Consultancy in Belleville, IL

William H. Payson is with Merge Global and specializes in financing infrastructure.

Robert W. Poole, Jr. is President of Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. He has written and spoken extensively on privatization issues and is one of the nation's leading experts on privatization, particularly on airports.

James B. Ramsey is Professor of Economics at New York University in New York, NY.

Jack M. Reilly is Director of Capital District Transportation Authority in Albany, NY.

Gabriel Roth is a transportation consultant formerly with the World Bank. He is the author of several books and many articles on the subject of roads and privatization.

John Semmens is an economist with the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Steven A. Steckler is President of Infrastructure Management Group, Inc. of Bethesda, MD. He has had wide experience in consulting on the financing of infrastructure.

William Vickrey is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University in New York City and a past President of the American Economic Association. He is one of the world's most prolific writers on the subject of transportation economics.

Carl B. Williams is Assistant Deputy Director of the California Department of Transportation. He coordinates California's transportation policies with those of the Federal Government and has specialized in designing public/private partnership programs.

Duane Windsor is Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management at Rice University in Houston, TX and written extensively about government management issues.

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