Estimating Capital and Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Planning

by Aurelio Menendez

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275942198
• ISBN13: 9780275942199
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"