Assessing the Costs Attributed to Project Delay During Project Pre-Construction Stages

This project for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) developed a simple but sound methodology for estimating the cost of delaying most types of highway projects. Researchers considered the cost of delays during the pre-construction phases of project development: planning and scoping, preliminary engineering, final design, and letting. Researchers developed a simplified model that incorporates 16 user-controlled variables and produces estimates of the effect of project delay on personal and commercial travel and the cost to the general economy. While the methodology is simple, there is no rule of thumb because project delay costs depend on several variables, primarily location, traffic, construction costs, and travel speeds.

• Record URL:
  http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-6806-FY15-WR3.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/30769
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/30876
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Project Title: TxDOT Administration Research.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Beaty, Curtis
  • Ellis, David
  • Glover, Brianne
  • Stockton, Bill
• Publication Date: 2016-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 60p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction projects; Cost estimating; Costs; Delays; Methodology; Planning stages; Road construction
• Subject Areas: Construction; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01596716
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-15/0-6806-FY15 WR#3, 0-6806-FY15 WR#3
• Contract Numbers: 0-6806-TTI
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 22 2016 10:45AM