Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Aurelio Menendez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.462kg
ISBN: 9780275942199
ISBN 10: 0275942198
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 30 July 1993
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
?The book is a good summary of a problem that all planners face at one time or another: conducting technical analysis in a biased environment. The case descriptions of the relationships between technical analysis and decision-making make this book worth reading.?-Journal of American Planning Association
"""The book is a good summary of a problem that all planners face at one time or another: conducting technical analysis in a biased environment. The case descriptions of the relationships between technical analysis and decision-making make this book worth reading."" - Journal of American Planning Association ""This book is of interest to transportation planners, politicians, practitioners, and persons interested in improving urban transportation infrastructure."" - Defense Transportation Journal"
This book is of interest to transportation planners, politicians, practitioners, and persons interested in improving urban transportation infrastructure. - Defense Transportation Journal The book is a good summary of a problem that all planners face at one time or another: conducting technical analysis in a biased environment. The case descriptions of the relationships between technical analysis and decision-making make this book worth reading. - Journal of American Planning Association
Author Information
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.
