››› Session 7

Financing Incident Management - options and innovations

Prof Phil Charles   Director, Centre for Transport Strategy , The University of Queensland

One of the key challenges to fully implementing incident management programs is the availability of adequate and ongoing financing and resourcing. A balance of public and private sector involvement can provide additional resources. This paper briefly examines the application of public-private-partnerships and road pricing in addressing congestion caused through incidents. Private sector financing has been utilised in a number of significant transport infrastructure projects, and there is increasing interest in private sector involvement in the operation of transport services and provision of traveller information.