First French-American Workshop on Public Transportation & Innovative Financing (1/3)

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Matthieu Desiderio

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) part of the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), the French Trade Office of the French Embassy in the United States, and the French Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development, and Land Planning (Ministère de l’Ecologie, de l’Energie, du Développement Durable et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, MEEDDAT) organized from July 6 to July 8 2008, a two days workshop on how to develop effective mass transit systems through private investment and innovative financing.

The event and site visits have been held in Lyon-Charbonnières and Saint Etienne, France. U.S. Delegation Chief Sherry Little, FTA Deputy Administrator was pleased to welcome Representative John Mica (R-FL) and Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-CA).

The conference report will available online in the next couple days. It is divided in three main parts:

a general overview of the French practices and evolutions in the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) field;
a summary of each presentation from the five sessions;and
French regulatory and bibliographical references to help understanding the complexity of Public-Private Partnerships.

All slideshows will be made available independently in a future article.

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