Programa

Politícas de Transportes e Instituições

Diploma de Estudos Avançados em Sistemas de Transportes

Programa

a) Market failure. Mission of the State and its evolution. General State Objectives, citizens interests and electoral impact. Public Choice Theory b) Methods for policy and process evaluation c) Agents and Institutions. Instruments for State intervention and public private interaction d) Problem complexity, multiple interests and balance of power. Managing stakeholders. Generating policy initiatives. e) Infra-structure development: direct and indirect effects, evaluation mechanisms, priority setting. f) Program definition and evaluation g) Transport Costs and Financing. h) Intervening in service supply. Public service concept. Price intervention. Direct and indirect beneficiaries. i) Public acceptability and institutional discussion. Project and policy evaluation in three main aspects: global; public acceptability, technical feasibility. j) Classic approach to financing. Financing of investment versus current expenditures. Reasons for reducing State intervention. Engaging private initiative in infrastructure funding. Risk sharing and management in different type of concession contracts. Solutions: public-private partnership, project finance. k) Liberalisation of market access and the way this was conceive and implemented by the different modes: road; rail; air; maritime; urban public transport