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The first chapter presents the analysis of public-private partnerships (PPPs), performance-based road management and maintenance contract (PMMR), and Funktionsbauvertrag (FBV, function-based construction contract). It presents a deep analysis of these project delivery contracts and includes their structure, contractual agreements, financing, and a comparative study between them in road projects.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    How and why PPP is a performance-based contract will be discussed in Chap. 3.

  2. 2.

    Paragraph 1, Green Paper on Public-Private Partnerships and Community Law on Public Contracts and Concessions, COM (2004) 327 final, Project Delivery Systems, Lecture note in Lehrstuhl für Bauprozessmanagement und Immobilienentwicklung an der Technischen Universität Müncen, issue 01/2009 pp. 7–28.

  3. 3.

    These aspects are elaborated in Chaps. 3 and 4.

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Gajurel, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Performance-Based Contracts for Road Projects. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1302-4_1

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