An Overview of Road User Charging Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
Cesar Queiroz, Barbara Rdzanowska, Michel Audige
This paper covers the most commonly used means to charge road users, such as fuel and lubricant taxes, vehicle taxes, vignettes, and tolls, as well as the mechanisms to allocate funds for roads (budget allocations or road funds). A brief survey of road user charging systems ...

Poland Workshop on Road User Charging Systems
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT IN POLAND AND WORLD BANK
The Road User Charging (RUC) Systems Workshop, held in Warsaw on June 11-12, 2007, was jointly organized by the Polish Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the World Bank (WB). The workshop’s main objective was to share experience in the design and implementation of modern ...

Latvia: Regional Workshop on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Transport, March 6-8, 2007, Riga
Ministry of Transport and World Bank
The workshop, held in Riga, Latvia, on March 6-8, 2007, provided an overview of the role and contribution of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in maintaining, upgrading and extending transport infrastructure. The workshop was designed to increase participants’ knowledge ...

The growing and evolving business of private participation in airports new trends, new actors emerging
Doug Andrew; Silviu Dochia
Private sector management and financing of airports has continued to expand in developing countries. Long-term concessions for airports are the predominant model today, with governments often taking a minority shareholding in the venture. Careful attention to policy design, ...

Public and private sector roles in the supply of transport infrastructure and services
Paul Amos
The Bank’s Infrastructure Action Plan1 sets out a series of measures to revitalize the Bank Group’s nfrastructure business and requires the Bank to provide a broad menu of ptions for public and private sector nfrastructure service provision. There is a need for the Bank ...

Launching public private partnerships for highways in transition economies
Cesar Queiroz
In many countries the private sector has been involved in financing infrastructure through concessions under a public-private partnership (PPP) program. PPP schemes, however, are somewhat underutilized in transition economies, where the potential financing gaps are significant ...