Estimating Capital and Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Planning

Aurelio Menendez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

1993
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-275-94219-9 (ISBN)

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Addressing the chronic underestimation of capital and operating costs in urban transportation projects, this book provides a detailed analysis of the cost estimating process using case studies from three U.S. cities and outlines a practical framework for this process. The work goes beyond a simple quantitative approach to explaining cost underestimation and looks at the planning process as a tool for both argumentation and structuring the argumentation. This approach highlights the difficulties in several components of the estimating process and suggests specific and practical actions to address these problems. The proposed framework will strengthen the estimating function and the link between analysis and decision in urban transportation planning.

This work will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in transportation planning, urban planning, and transportation engineering.

Aurelio Menendez is an infrastructure specialist with the World Bank in Washington, D.C. For the past decade he has been involved at the academic and professional level with public transportation planning and decision making in both the developed and developing world. He holds a PhD in urban regional planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Introduction Transportation Planning in a Changing Environment Case Studies The Technical Process of Estimating Costs Decision Making: Perspectives, Elements, and Problems Putting the Pieces Together: A Framework for Cost Estimating Conclusions Recapitulation: Some Views with Hindsight Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.1993
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Controlling / Kostenrechnung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-275-94219-8 / 0275942198
ISBN-13	978-0-275-94219-9 / 9780275942199
Zustand	Neuware