While the German government undertakes a major management restructuring of the country's 13,000-kilometer Autobahn network, officials are steadily pushing ahead with a program of 24 public-private partnerships (P3s) to build or upgrade and operate nearly 1,500 km of its routes.
A $1.4-billion contract for a highway in Bavaria was signed in April, followed early this month by another deal in Hesse state, as the federal government prepares to take control of national highways from the Germany's 16 state governments.