Development of a special topics course on civil engineering project finance for the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering of Texas A&M University.

Details

• Creators:
  Damnjanovic, Ivan ; Aslan, Zafer
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute. University Transportation Center for Mobility
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Transportation Institute ; United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Education
  • Graduate study
  • Civil engineering
  • Decision making
  • Planning methods
  • Budgeting
  • Public private partnerships
  • Education
  • Graduate study
  • Civil engineering
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  UTCM 10-22-49
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Final report; 1/1/2010¿2/28/2011,
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. University Transportation Center for Mobility
• Abstract:
  Experts predict that the highway trust fund will deteriorate rapidly over the course of the next several ; years. This situation has led many state agencies to seek alternative financing methods that can meet both ; social and economic needs. One possible solution to the problem is to partner with the private sector and ; together, utilizing project finance methods, deliver facilities. This innovative approach has only recently ; found new applications in delivering transportation infrastructure. This trend is likely to increase in the near ; future. Because it has been widely adopted in other infrastructure sectors, mainly for delivering power ; plants, major pipelines, etc., many valuable cases and lessons learned can be brought to the ; transportation arena. Nevertheless, very few, if any, of the educational programs in the country have a ; project finance course integrated into the core curriculum for graduate civil engineering students. Even ; fewer programs treat project finance as a truly interdisciplinary topic. In fact, the topic of project finance ; often constitutes only a small part of the structured finance curricula. The purpose of this project was to ; bridge this gap by developing educational and teaching materials for an interdisciplinary course in project ; finance. This course communicates the implications of financial decisions on engineering choices and vice ; versa. The course is directed toward graduate students at the Master of Science level to better prepare ; them to deal with real-world transportation financing.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT06-G-0044
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23583/dot_23583_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.69 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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