Practices and Innovation in Infrastructure Financing

Dear Colleagues,

Building transportation infrastructure has a high economic and social impact, while long-term investment follows. Therefore, long-term financing can be easily exposed to uncertainty and financial risks.

It was common to invest public funds, or taxes, by recognizing infrastructure as public assets in the past. In the recent years, the financial market began to introduce innovative financial techniques other than taxes to deliver financial instruments with attractive investment characteristics. These instruments aim to cover the gap between public funding and the cost of financing and management.

However, there are a great number of critical questions remain to be addressed: the method of measuring of the capital gap; the empirical evidence of the effectiveness of the innovative infrastructure financing vehicles; the logistics of utilizing these vehicles by the infrastructure demand side; the efficiency of the agent decision concerning financing attempts; the welfare mismatch between the infrastructure demand side and the investors; the satisfaction of the investors regarding the infrastructure investment performance from the return, risk, liquidity, legitimacy, term, tax concern, and unique needs. Therefore, it became inevitable to study and introduce financial techniques for infrastructure that are healthy and less exposed to risk in the long term.

The purpose of this special issue is to share examples of new transportation infrastructure financial techniques going on worldwide and to publish original or review studies on innovative financial techniques.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Advances in infrastructure financing;
• Best practices in infrastructure financing;
• The mechanism of infrastructure financing;
• Advances in forecasting methods for financing;
• Social issues and infrastructure financing;
• Private–public partnerships;
• The performance measurement of infrastructure financing instruments;
• The project management of financing and delivery;
• Information sharing for innovative finance;
• Candidate revenue sources.

Dr. EunSu Lee
Dr. Huijian Dong
Dr. Gary A. Patterson
Guest Editors

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• Innovative financing
• Infrastructure financing
• Crowd funding
• Public–private partnership (PPP)
• Urban infrastructure
• Forecasting
• Plan-based
• Value-at-risk
• Centralized risk management
• Agent theory
• Investment performance
• Financing illiquidity
• Term premium
• Family office (investment)
• Private equity