The Channel Tunnel is the world's largest privately funded engineering project. It is the key new addition to Europe's transport infrastructure, and a big test of whether such projects can be left primarily to the market mechanism. The purpose of this book is to analyze public and private sector response to the Channel Tunnel, and to assess the economic and political implications of those responses. The book is founded on a major Anglo-French research initiative, which has generated a large body of empirical information. It is not, however, a research report, but a research-based analysis of public-private sector relations, and of the economic and political implications of the Channel Tunnel.
