NEHRP Clearinghouse
- Title
- Design Guide for Improving Hospital Safety in Earthquakes, Floods, and High Winds. Risk Management Series.
- File
- PB2008105707.pdf
- Source
- June 2007, 398 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- FEMA-577
- Abstract
- Most Americans are accustomed to receiving sophisticated and prompt medical attention after an injury or a medical problem occurs, anytime and anywhere in the country, without traveling great distances. Such expectations are even greater during mass emergencies that rquire immediate care for a large number of casualtites. taxes, continues to decline and operating deficits increase, transportation agencies are increasingly looking for new sources of revenue to leverage funding and to improve project feasibility and cost-effectiveness. One of the most successful methods employed by other infrastructure sectors to improve project feasibility and cost-effectiveness and generate revenues is the use of public-private partnerships (PPPs). In addition to cutting costs and raising new revenue, PPPs can significantly reduce the time it takes to complete a capital project, can help the public sector allocate risks to the private sector that the private sector is better able to manage and can improve the quality of the publics infrastructure. The success other sectors have had with PPPs has led transportation agencies, including a number of transit agencies, to pursue opportunities for applying various types of PPPs to deliver major capital projects. There is ample evidence across the United States that the private sector is interested in increasing its participation in transportation infrastructure projects, including a number of recent transit capital projects structured as PPPs.
- Keywords
- Infrastructure projects; Public-private partnerships; Risk management; Floods; Transportation agencies; Hospital safety; Public-private partnerships (PPPs); Major capital projects; Earthquakes; High winds