Project Financing
In recent years, transportation assessments to support project financing initiatives for new road and toll highway arteries have steadily gained ground among the Associates’ requests for consultancy.
Given its professional profile, the studio is able to furnish the party proposing the project with the support it needs, integrating the drafting of the studies required for the administrative processing of the project with the project’s technical or land-use feasibility in order to arrive at the project’s financial feasibility for the subsequent drafting of the Financial Plan.
Specifically, the transportation assessments are based on the results of traffic simulations done using transport analysis software able to generate reliable traffic forecasts for project infrastructure ranging from the year of completion through to the end of the project’s lifespan.
Ascertaining the elasticity of demand based on tolls for a given route bears special interest in transportation assessment for project financing initiatives. This elasticity is provided on a routine basis thanks to the traffic simulation’s ability to consider the extra cost in tolls for users and to analysis of users’ stated perceived value of time (Stated Preferences Research).
