Road Maintenance
Over a period of several decades, there has been considerable experimentation with innovative road maintenance contracts, on the part of central government highways authorities as well as municipalities.
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The Word on the Streetscene: Transforming local neighbourhoods (Web Page) Giorgia Iacopini, 2009 New Local Government Network (NLGN) 'Streetscene' is a term coined to cover a range of core services which affect the daily street environment. These include planning, design, street furniture, streetlighting, parking, traffic management, street cleaning, litter, and green and open spaces.This report argues for a radical rethink of frontline streetscene services. The research, published in assocation with Serco, argues that by adopting street-by-street analysis councils can raise performance. This is a link to the payment page only. ISBN: 978 1 903 447 82 6 UK
Developing the Local Government Services Market: Working Paper on Neighbourhood and Streetscene Services (PDF) Department for Communities and Local Government and Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, 2007 The Stationery Office A report on street cleaning, grounds maintenance and roads maintenance services where there is an opportunity to provide a more coherent approach and develop fence-to-fence solutions directed at liveability outcomes, through a sensible balance between economies of scale in contracting and locally tailored services, and encouraging a more diverse supply base. UK
A New Approach to Highway Maintenance and Management (PDF)
Birmingham City Council, Deloitte, Mott Macdonald, 4ps, 2003
Information Pack for the then largest UK local authority PFI project and largest privately financed roads project which included refurbishment and operation of roads, footways, street lighting, bridges, traffic signals and street furniture.
Is Private Delivery of Public Services Really Cheaper: Evidence from Public Road Maintenance in Denmark Blom-Hansen, Jens, 2003 Public Choice, 115, pp.419-438 A study comparing public and private costs from 273 Danish Municipalities between 1988 and 1999. It is estimated that private delivery reduces average expenditure by 2%. Denmark
Contracting for Road and Highway Maintenance (PDF)
Segal, Geoffrey F.; Moore, Adrian T. and McCarthy, Samuel , 2003
How-to-Guide No.21, Reason Foundation
The Private Finance Initiative: The First Four Design, Build, Finance and Operate Roads Contracts (Web Page)
National Audit Office (NAO), 1998
HC 476, Session 1997-98
Road Maintenance by Contract: What Are the Risks and Benefits?
Austroads Inc. & ARRB Transport Research Ltd, 1998
Proceedings of the Austroads Workshops held throughout Australia and New Zealand
Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing for City Services (A&B) Kaplan, Robert S., 1996 Harvard Business School A case study on the pot-hole repair contract in Indianapolis during the reforms of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. Despite initial resistance to competition the in-house team won the contract. 9-196-115, 9-196-117 US
Revolutionising Road Maintenance: A Case Study
Dixon, Rebecca & Jensen, Paul, 1995
The Contracting Casebook, Domberger, Simon & Hall, Christine (eds), Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, pp.155-167
A Case Study in Competitive Tendering and its Implementation: Australia
Rimmer, S., 1991
Privatisation and Public Enterprise: The Asia-Pacific Experience, G. Gouri (ed), Asian and Pacific Development Centre and the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, Chapter 22
An overview of the outcomes and lessons learned from the competitive tendering of road sealing, mechanical street sweeping and municipal tipping facilities in Glenorchy, a small Tasmanian city.