SCHEDULING A COMPLEX PROJECT: SYSTEMS INSTALLATION OF THE BUFFALO LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM

Systemwide contracts require multiple interfacing and interdependence of available work areas. Proper sequencing is necessary to avoid equipment damage and to allow individual and integrated testing. Bar charts and CPM networks are necessary preliminary steps, but do not show the required level of detail for many complex and interrelated activities. Information taken from detailed CPM networks can be plotted against existing contractual time-space constraints to show where conflicts of time and space occur, allowing decisions to be made regarding system priorities, possibilities of concurrent work or rescheduling. When the time-space diagram is completed, the systemwide contracts can be fully integrated.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Design, Construction and Rehabilitation of Public Transit Facilities, held at Holiday Inn at the Embarcadero, San Diego, California, March 26-27, 1982.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  345 East 47th Street
  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Kleppinger, R F
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Design, Construction and Rehabilitation of Public Transit Facilities, held at Holiday Inn at the Embarcadero, San Diego, California, March 26-27, 1982.
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 356-365

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction management; Construction scheduling; Contracts; Critical path method; Light rail transit; Scheduling; Time dependence
• Geographic Terms: Buffalo (New York)
• Old TRIS Terms: Phase construction
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00370369
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 1983 12:00AM