Construction of Traffic Infrastructures: Causes of Low Effectiveness

The paper describes sources that usually causing a low effectiveness of the process of preliminaries, briefing, construction and operation of public traffic infrastructures in the EU countries. The first concern is the number of claims and the approach to settling disputes. Also of concern is the inconsistent project supervision by the public owner. The paper describes specific measures, methods and practices that will improve the current unsatisfactory state of matters in this field. If accepted by the public sector, the results may lead to increasing the transparency of the public commissioning process in traffic infrastructures, to name more effective public spending of money from EU structural funds and to improving the longevity, sustainability and utilization of traffic infrastructure.