CALCIOLARI, Stefano

Presupposti ed opportunitą per il ricorso al project financing negli investimenti infrastrutturali nell'ambito del trasporto ferroviario regionale - Milano : Maggioli Editore, 2001

Since the nineties the need to modernize Italian infrastructures has become more and more evident, but this contrast with teh growing attention to cost containment: the railway industry is not an exception. The financing model called "project financing" might be able to mulitply available resources thank to the involvement of private parties both into venture capital and into management of services related to the investment. The public subject is to give suitable guarantees, but this solution might solve the initial dilemma, also thank to the recent legislative development. The article analyses this financing model, also trying to apply it to the italian railway industry nd specifically to a case study