This study is a comprehensive and up-to-date review of public private partnership (PPP) projects in Germany at federal, state and municipal level. It includes information on the distribution of PPPs, project types, investments, obstacles and prospects of success.

The German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) has carried out this study on behalf of the PPP Task Force at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing (BMVBW) in 2005.

Representative survey that targeted 1500 cities and municipalities and all rural counties (Landkreise) (response rate close to 70%). Additional information was gathered regarding projects on the state level.

PPP infrastructure projects are now widespread in Germany, particularly municipal level. The survey sketches over 200 ongoing sensu stricto PPP projects (those encompassing several “lifecycle” phases such as planning, construction, operation, financing and subsequent utilization), of which around 80% are at municipal level.

German Institute of Urban Affairs: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik (Difu)
Busso Grabow, tel. +49 30 39001 248

01/01/2006

Busso Grabow, Michael Reidenbach, Manuela Rottmann, Antje Seidel-Schulze

research

Urban Policy

Transport and infrastructure