Infrastructure Planning

"This book serves to introduce engineers to the principles and procedures necessary for infrastructure planning in rapidly developing regions. It covers the technical methods required in planning for infrastructure provision from base-line studies and problem definition through to the specification for a set of projects. The book also discusses the political factors that affect the decision-making process, and it demonstrates, through case studies, how the technical and political perspectives come together in the finished plan."--Jacket. � Read more... Abstract: This book introduces engineers to the principles and procedures necessary for infrastructure planning in rapidly developing regions. It covers the technical methods required in planning for infrastructure provision from base-line studies and problem definition through to the specification for a set of projects. � Read more... Title Page 1 Preface 3 Acknowledgements 4 Contents 6 What do we mean by infrastructure? 8 Is infrastructure important to an economy? 9 How is infrastructure delivered? 9 Build-operate-transfer (BOT) schemes 10 Concessions 10 Development gain 11 Public or private funding? 11 Is it important who owns infrastructure? 12 About this book 13 Why plan? 15 Economic arguments 16 Political arguments 16 What social values should we use? 18 Approaches to Third World development 22 Case study - infrastructure development in Thailand 25 First and Second Development Plans (1961-1971) 25 Third and Fourth Development Plans (1972-1981) 25 Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Development Plans (1982-1996) 26 Postscript 27 The views of the World Bank 27 Planning for sustainable development 29 Natural capital is now limiting 29 Sustainability 29 Global sustainable development 31 National planning? 33 A technical perspective 34 A political perspective 41 The two perspectives at work 46 Problem diagnosis 47 Problem diagnosis - political perspectives 47 Problem diagnosis - technical perspective 51 Goal articulation 57 Case study - Development investigation of the North Western New Territories, Hong Kong (Part I) (New Territories Development Consultants 1981) 59 Forecasting - technical perspective 71 Judgemental and numerical techniques 72 Examples of projections 75 Scenario generation and design of alternatives 78 Examples of predictions 79 Forecasting - political perspective 85 Case study - political imperatives and electricity demand forecasting 86 Case study - development investigation of the North Western New Territories, Hong Kong (Part II) (New Territories Development Consultants, 1981): forecasting and design of alternatives 88 Plan testing - technical perspective 99 Plan testing - political perspectives 106 Case study - development investigation of the North Western New Territories, Hong Kong (Part III) (New Territories Development Consultants, 1981) 107 Background 120 The pedigree 121 Conceptual framework 123 The procedure of CBA 129 The politics of CBA 136 Case study - The Gordon-below-Franklin hydroelectric scheme 138 Case study - the use of CBA for roads in New South Wales (NSW) 144 Background 147 Conceptual framework 148 Financial evaluation versus economic evaluation 152 Case study - the financial and economic evaluation of two electricity generation options 153 Case study - the reality of project evaluation 161 Public unease and private finance 168 Technical perspective 170 Political perspective 176 Case study - the social impact of the Barcelona Olympic infrastructure 179 Case study - second Sydney Airport, Site Selection Programme: Draft EIS (Kinhill Stearns, 1985) 180 Site selection methodology 180 Sensitivity testing 184 Technical perspective 192 Political perspective 200 Case study - the IBIO in the Republic of Takota 209 Implementation delays 211 Case study - the Eastern Distributor Tunnel, Sydney 211 Case study - a BOT franchise in Hong Kong 212 Introduction and background 212 Policy considerations 213 Government's role in a BOT project 214 Perspective of the franchisee 218 The management plan 220 Leadership 227 Negotiating with the social environment 229 Case study - negotiating in Thailand (Parkin and Parkin, 1994) 232 References 242 Index 249

This book introduces engineers to the principles and procedures necessary for infrastructure planning in rapidly developing regions. It covers the technical methods required in planning for infrastructure provision from base-line studies and problem definition through to the sepcification for a set of projects. The book also discusses the political factors that affect the decision-making process and demonstrates, through case studies, how the technical and political perspectives come together in the finished plan.

Content: 1. Introduction -- 2. The goals of planning -- 3. Two perspectives on planning -- 4. Problem diagnosis and goal articulation -- 5. Forecasting and design of alternatives -- 6. Plan testing -- 7. Economic evaluation -- 8. Financial evaluation -- 9. Environmental evaluation -- 10. Implementation -- 11. Managing the planning process.