Clear thinking needed to maximise infrastructure investment benefits

摘要

Two reports this month from Australia and Europe regarding additional infrastructure investment should give heart to the rail industry, but they also highlight the differing attitudes to investment around the world, the way projects are funded and the importance of setting clear objectives for capital projects. The head of Australia's newly-elected federal government, Mr Tony Abbott, says he wants to be known as the infrastructure prime minister, and while he is committed to building more roads one of his first acts was to give the green light to the multi-billion dollar Inland Rail project to provide a new rail link between Melbourne and Brisbane.