Basic understanding
- Concepts of infrastructure
- Economics of infrastructure
- Pricing of infrastructure services
- Potential organization of infrastructure service provision
- Norm costs (expenditure) and revenues (cost coverage)
- Financing of infrastructure
- Significance of spatial structures for infrastructure service costs and provision.
Applicability and practicability
- Land use <-> Impacts on public budgets
- (Economic) concepts for analyzing infrastructures, relfection and theoretical underpinning of the professional planning practice
1. Principles of infrastructure economics
2. Concepts of infrastructure
3. Economic attributes / characteristics of infrastructure
4. Natural monopolies and regulation
5. Pricing of infrastructure services
6. Organizational forms of infrastructure provision
7. Infrastructure investment and (longterm) maintenance/operating costs
8. Costs of different spatial structures
