Infrastructure Project Finance

Concerning global initiatives on infrastructure development, operation, and redevelopment, this research topic focuses on convergence research into theoretical and/or practical progress in the subject field of infrastructure project finance. The editors would like to take this unique opportunity to invite colleagues around the world to show the advances of IPF-related insights and solutions that can help enhance the performance of infrastructure project investments. It is also expected that this research topic can support evidence-based learning and practices to reflect the financial implications of policy, technology, and governance-oriented theory and praxis for infrastructure development, operation, and redevelopment.

The scope of this research topic covers all issues relating to the theory and solutions of leadership development for infrastructure project finance in the context of large-scale capital project management. Issues under this research topic could be connected to, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Artificial intelligence for infrastructure project financial management

• Budget and cost analysis of infrastructure project delivery

• Digital approaches to infrastructure project accounting

• Econometric evidence on infrastructure investments and project finance

• Econometric evidence on critical infrastructure protection

• Economic implications of policy and technology for infrastructure development

• Economic analysis of agile/lean infrastructure project execution

• Economic analysis on infrastructure (system) sustainability

• Economic effects of dynamic collaborations among infrastructure stakeholders

• Economic effects of technical innovations for infrastructure project delivery

• Economic effects of BIM pervasive infrastructure project execution

• Economic effects of infrastructure project informatics

• Financial feasibility study on infrastructure development and redevelopment

• Financial management for infrastructure development, operation, and maintenance

• Financial models for infrastructure project execution

• Financial risk analysis for infrastructure development and redevelopment

• Holistic policymaking approaches to infrastructure investments

• Infrastructure financing instruments and incentives

• Infrastructure investment policy, strategy, and governance

• Infrastructure project financing and regulatory framework

• Infrastructure project financing via public-private partnerships

• Infrastructure project strategy development on value for money

• Investment economics for infrastructure development and redevelopment

• Learning legacies on infrastructure project finance

• Legal and regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment

• Long-term value and impacts of infrastructure investments and project finance

• Performance measurement in infrastructure project development

• Proactive approaches to infrastructure project finance

• Quantitative approaches to financial decision-making for infrastructure investments

• Resources efficiency on infrastructure project delivery

• Social implications for infrastructure development and redevelopment

• Technical review on infrastructure project investment

• Theory and practices for infrastructure investment management

Keywords: Infrastructure development, Infrastructure finance, Infrastructure investment, Project finance, Project partnership

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.