PricewaterhouseCoopers has recently published a report in which it predicts that transport infrastructure operators are facing rising demand, constrained financial resources and bottlenecks in supply over the next 20 years. Respondents to the survey, carried out in co-operation with the Supply Chain Management Institute of the European Business School, expect that industrialised countries will lead in transport infrastructure provision.

Emerging markets, such as India and Russia, currently heavily invest in transport infrastructure but it is not expected that they will be able to close the gap completely by 2030. There is an expectation that regulatory measures, such as toll roads or congestion charges will be used to compensate for the increased level of investment in transport infrastructure. 

Governments, in industrialised as well as emerging countries, are facing enormous challenges in attributing sufficient capital to transport infrastructure investment. As a result, respondents think that the financing of maintaining existing infrastructure will be more difficult than attracting investment in new infrastructure.

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