Transportation

The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge Proposal

Publication Date: January 22, 2003

In the first years after its 1997 reunification with China, the economy of Hong Kong, a former British crown colony that had developed as a post-World War II economic powerhouse, was sputtering. Growth in gross domestic product had slowed and...

Cochin International Airport: Gateway to God's Own Country

Publication Date: March 01, 2002

Cochin International Airport opened in 1999 to widespread acclaim as the first and only airport to be constructed and operated by a private company in India. By 2001 the airport was generating enough revenue to cover its operating costs, but not...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

Bangkok's Skytrain (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...

Bangkok's Skytrain (A): Opening the System

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...

Managing the Underground City: The New York City Transit Authority Reclaims its Subway Stations (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

This epilogue to the text-based case (1275.0) continues the history of the origins and hopes for the station manager program described in the CD-ROM case (1275.9), "The New York City Transit Authority Station Manager Program: The Problem at...

Implementing Electronic Road Pricing in Singapore (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

The case describes the internationally known Singapore initiative to implement electronically deducted charges for road use, varying by route, type of vehicle, and time of day. The case highlights the widespread public acceptance of the...

Implementing Electronic Road Pricing in Singapore

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

The case describes the internationally known Singapore initiative to implement electronically deducted charges for road use, varying by route, type of vehicle, and time of day. The case highlights the widespread public acceptance of the...

The Melbourne City Link

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Melbourne City Link, a $2 billion privately-funded highway project, was one of the first fully electronic toll roads in the world. While the government of the State of Victoria specified this innovative tolling system in the tender for the...

The Tribasa Toll Road Trust

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

This case demonstrates how the international capital markets were used to obtain financing for the expansion of limited access highways in Mexico. Structured as a Rule 144A transaction, the offering securitized the future Mexican...