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The deliverance of ‘mega-projects’ – large infrastructure projects for the transportation of people and/or goods – requires strategic and collaborative decision-making. Crucial aspects of the decision-making process include uncertainties, risks, redundancy and adaptive capacity. Two leading academics in the field of transport infrastructure, Hugo Priemus and Bert van Wee, have recently pulled together a selection of state-of-the-art research from expert contributors in the form of a new Handbook. Here they explore the key to successful management of complex mega-projects.

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