The decision-making process for infrastructural investment choices

The book covers several aspects related to the main topic of infrastructural investment choices, particularly linked to the decision-making process through which investments are selected.
The volume illustrates and critically analyses methodological issues, from the most traditional to the most recent ones, in order to emphasize the pros and cons connected with investment decisions with several references to economic activities, particularly to the transport sector. It poses a range of problems related to institutional structures, decision-making processes, available tools, and methodologies used for supporting investment choices.
Authors analyze several case studies to show how it is possible to utilize theoretical suggestions in practical applications, thus identifying current difficulties and detecting possible tools to overcome them.

Elisabetta Venezia, Ph.D., researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Economics and Finance. She teaches Transport Economics, Economics of Transport Mobility and Economic Evaluation of Investments in UG and PG courses. Her research activity is mainly concentrated in the following topics: sustainable transport, economic evaluation of transport infrastructures, costs and benefits analysis, equity in the transport sector services and infrastructures, travel behavior. She is the author of more than 80 publications. She is the coordinator/component of several research projects groups at national and international levels. She is an active referee of several scientific journals. She has been a consultant of several Ministries and Local Authorities as a senior economist in the transport economics field. She is an independent scientific expert for the scientific evaluation of the Italian research (REPRISE) for the Italian Ministry of Education and Scientific Research (MIUR). She is also a component of the Italian Evaluation Body (O.I.V.).