Inclui bibliografia e índice.

Management characteristics of mega-projects / Hans de Bruijn and Martijn Leijten -- Ex-ante evaluation of mega-projects: methodological issues and cost–benefit analysis / Bert van Wee and Lóránt A. Tavasszy -- Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Wider Economic Benefits from Mega-Projects / Roger W. Vickerman -- Mega-projects and contested Information / Hans de Bruijn and Martijn Leijten -- How to improve the early stages of decision-making on mega-projects? / Hugo Priemus -- Public planning of mega-projects: overestimation of demand and underestimation of costs / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Evolving strategy: risk management and the shaping of mega- projects / Roger Miller and Donald R. Lessard -- How to overcome major weaknesses in mega-projects? The norwegian approach / Knut Samset -- Public–private partnership and mega-projects / Joop Koppenjan -- Innovations in the planning of mega-projects / Werner Rothengatter -- The cost of the technological sublime: daring ingenuity and the new San Francisco–oakland bay bridge / Karen Trapenberg Frick -- Provision and management of dedicated railway systems: how to arrange competition / Didier van de Velde and Ernst F. ten Heuvelhof -- Rail infrastructure at major European hub airports: the role of institutional settings / Moshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld -- Drawing institutional lessons across countries on making transport infrastructure policy / W. Martin de Jong.

Este livro amplia o entendimento da tomada de decisões em mega-projetos e sugere recomendações para uma abordagem mais eficaz, eficiente e democrática. Autores de diferentes disciplinas científicas abordam vários aspectos do processo de tomada de decisão, tais como características de gestão e análise custo-benefício, planejamento e inovação e competição e instituições.

PRIEMUS, Hugo; FLYVBJERG, Bent; VAN BERT, Wee (Ed.). Decision-making on mega-projects: cost–benefit analysis, planning and innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, c2008. (Transport economics, management and policy).