Decision-Making on Mega-Projects

Edited by Hugo Priemus, Professor Emeritus of System Innovation and Spatial Development, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Bent Flyvbjerg, BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK and Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

• Contents:1. Introduction: Scope of the BookHugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg and Bert van WeePART I: MANAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS AND COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS2. Management Characteristics of Mega-ProjectsHans de Bruijn and Martijn Leijten3. Ex-ante Evaluation of Mega-Projects: Methodological Issues and Cost–Benefit AnalysisBert van Wee and Lóránt A. Tavasszy4. Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Wider Economic Benefits from Mega-ProjectsRoger W. Vickerman5. Mega-Projects and Contested InformationHans de Bruijn and Martijn LeijtenPART II: PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING6. How to Improve the Early Stages of Decision-making on Mega-Projects?Hugo Priemus7. Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand andUnderestimation of CostsBent Flyvbjerg8. Evolving Strategy: Risk Management and the Shaping of Mega-ProjectsRoger Miller and Donald R. Lessard9. How to Overcome Major Weaknesses in Mega-Projects? The Norwegian ApproachKnut Samset10. Public–Private Partnership and Mega-ProjectsJoop KoppenjanPART III: INNOVATION, COMPETITION AND INSTITUTIONS11. Innovations in the Planning of Mega-ProjectsWerner Rothengatter12. The Cost of the Technological Sublime: Daring Ingenuity and the New San Francisco–Oakland Bay BridgeKaren Trapenberg Frick13. Provision and Management of Dedicated Railway Systems: How toArrange CompetitionDidier van de Velde and Ernst F. ten Heuvelhof14. Rail Infrastructure at Major European Hub Airports: The Role of Institutional SettingsMoshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld15. Drawing Institutional Lessons Across Countries on Making Transport Infrastructure PolicyW. Martin de JongIndex

'It will be useful for those experienced and senior professionals who are charged with authorizing and controlling projects. Recommended.'