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The Town Planning Scheme (TPS) makes land available for urbanisation by pooling and readjusting lands and appropriating areas for public purposes through negotiations between the local planning authority and landowners. Ahmedabad City in Gujarat state, through the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), has undertaken urban expansion using the Danilimda TPS to integrate land use planning and service provision.
Hyderabad's growing population and road congestion resulted in the Government of Andhra Pradesh pursuing Hyderabad Metro Rail which, in its first phase, is a 72 km network covering three high-density traffic corridors.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) undertakes infrastructure projects within the city covering assets such as roads, tunnels, and subway lines. Design and planning are performed by departments within SMG while the actual construction work is the responsibility of the Seoul Metropolitan Infrastructure Headquarters (SMIH).
Watercare is owned by Auckland Council and is New Zealand's largest water utility responsible for providing water and wastewater services to the approximately 1.4 million people in the Auckland region. Watercare is required to maintain the network in line with the organisation's ambitious cost, sustainability, reliability, and safety targets.
The New Dunedin Hospital is a new hospital to be constructed in the lower region of New Zealand’s (NZ) South Island. Complex projects such as the New Dunedin Hospital typically suffer from an imbalanced risk allocation between the client and contractor due to a lack of investigative works or market engagement in the planning process.
This case study looks at how Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is undertaken in Tokyo, in one of the most densely populated urban environments, to successfully improve passenger experience and footfall. The Shibuya redevelopment project looks at using TOD to gentrify the local area across the five urban schemes that make up the overall redevelopment: Hikarie Culture Core, Station Central, D?genzaka project, Station-South, and Sakuragaoka project. The project is being completed in stages.
This case study explores the fast-paced delivery of the reconstruction of the bridge which was viewed as a national challenge and imperative. Resources exploring lessons learnt from the collapse itself can be found in Further References .
The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project aims to increase passenger transport capacity of the public transport system, reduce air pollution, and by extension improve Jakarta’s investment climate by delivering a system that accommodates short-distance transport in Central Jakarta.
The toll road section of Jakarta-Bogor-Ciawi in Indonesia is approximately 50 km long and was opened in 1978. It is owned and managed by PT Jasa Marga, a state-owned enterprise responsible for managing many of Indonesia’s toll roads. PT Jasa Marga experienced difficulty accessing private financing for new toll road projects due to the long-term nature of returns, the high delivery risk, the high demand and usage risk, and a historic preference among institutional investors in Indonesia for short-term investments.
Ahmedabad Urban Development (AUDA) proposed an innovative approach to help cut down the park maintenance costs using a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. AUDA collaborated with Anand Milk Federation Union Limited (AMUL), one of India’s largest dairy cooperatives, to maintain the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) public gardens in return for being given the rights to establish and operate a retail store in these public gardens.
The quality of Argentina's infrastructure procurement processes improved significantly, helping to bring better value for money and quality outcomes from investment.
Australia’s transparent public procurement processes and well-resourced infrastructure departments provide favourable conditions for planning and documenting infrastructure projects.
Brazil's regulatory environment supports the creation of businesses and provides a high level of protection for insolvency. This promotes competition between suppliers which, coupled with a resilient financial sector, helps to attract capital supply for infrastructure projects.
Canada's infrastructure planning and procurement processes rank among the best in the world. Having sub-national infrastructure authorities responsible for infrastructure governance and regulation, combined with a high quality administrative and legal system, has helped promote quality project planning and delivery in Canada.
China has seen strong improvement across its procurement and permit processes and regulatory markets since 2017. This has been driven by reductions in cost to start a business and time to register property, as well as by transparency of procurement processes.
For its 27 members, the EU enables a standardised system of laws in various areas and provides overall political direction.
France's infrastructure procurement processes rank among the best in the world. In combination with strong financial markets and a regulatory framework that supports the creation of new businesses, this promotes competition among providers and helps bring better value for money and higher quality outcomes from investment.
Germany's regulatory frameworks and permit rules support the creation of new businesses and provide strong protections against business insolvency for creditors
The quality of India's infrastructure procurement processes has improved significantly in recent years, helping to bring better value for money and better-quality outcomes from investment.
As one of Southeast Asia’s largest economic and population hubs, Indonesia is favourably positioned to continue expanding its infrastructure activities.
