title: A simulation study of the impact of the public-private partnership strategy on the performance of transport infrastructure.
abstract: The choice of investment strategy has a great impact on the performance of transport infrastructure. Positive projects such as the "Subway plus Property" model in Hong Kong have created sustainable financial profits for the public transport projects. Owing to a series of public debt and other constraints, public-private partnership (PPP) was introduced as an innovative investment model to address this issue and help develop transport infrastructure. Yet, few studies provide a deeper understanding of relationships between PPP strategy and the performance of such transport projects (particularly the whole transport system). This paper defines the research scope as a regional network of freeway. With a popular PPP model, travel demand prediction method, and relevant parameters as input, agents in a simulation framework can simulate the choice of PPP freeway over time. The simulation framework can be used to analyze the relationship between the PPP strategy and performance of the regional freeway network. This study uses the Freeway Network of Yangtze River Delta (FN-YRD) in China as the context. The results demonstrate the value of using simulation models of complex transportation systems to help decision makers choose the right PPP projects. Such a tool is viewed as particularly important given the ongoing transformation of functions of the Chinese transportation sector, including franchise rights of transport projects, and freeway charging mechanism.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China ; National Traffic Management Engineering and Technology Research Centre Ningbo University Sub-Centre, Ningbo, China ; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Zhengfeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China ; National Traffic Management Engineering and Technology Research Centre Ningbo University Sub-Centre, Ningbo, China ; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Pengjun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China ; National Traffic Management Engineering and Technology Research Centre Ningbo University Sub-Centre, Ningbo, China ; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yanqiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China ; National Traffic Management Engineering and Technology Research Centre Ningbo University Sub-Centre, Ningbo, China ; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China ; National Traffic Management Engineering and Technology Research Centre Ningbo University Sub-Centre, Ningbo, China ; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Wenjun
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China ; National Traffic Management Engineering and Technology Research Centre Ningbo University Sub-Centre, Ningbo, China ; Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Wanlu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
keywords: Agent simulation; Freeway network; PPP model