SCDOT Project Development Process: Update and Best Practices

In the United States, federal, state, and local governments are responsible for addressing their residents' transportation infrastructure needs. Similar to most State Department of Transportation (State DOTs), the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is responsible for owning, operating, and maintaining a large transportation system for the state. SCDOT is under growing pressure for efficient and effective transportation project delivery to address the need and continued expansion. The pressure is due to high demand, limited funding sources, stakeholders’ concerns, federal and state policies, and intense public involvement. Due to increasing demand and pressure to meet its key strategic goals, SCDOT is taking initiatives to deliver projects as efficiently and expeditiously as possible. One of the efforts undertaken by SCDOT is streamlining its preconstruction Project Development Process (PDP). An Explanatory Sequential Design is used to meet the research’s goal. Preliminary semi-structured interviews are conducted with SCDOT to identify the agency’s current PDP practices and suggestions for improvement. An administrative questionnaire is utilized to obtain input from state DOTs and SCDOT’s delivery partners to gain insight regarding PDP best practices. Structured interviews with comparable state DOTs are conducted to probe PDP concepts, gain an in-depth understanding of PDP practices, and identify PDP best practices. The identified PDP Best Practices are assembled based on the data, analysis, and findings supported by five different data sources. The analysis of all data sources is used to assemble twelve (12) PDP Best Practices, that are organized into five categories.

• Record URL:
  https://scdot.scltap.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SPR-744-Final-Report-Linked-06-16-2021.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56553
• Corporate Authors:

  Clemson University

  Box 345702, Room 300, Brackett Hall
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634

  South Carolina Department of Transportation

  Office of Materials and Research
  1406 Shop Road
  Columbia, SC  United States  29201

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Bausman, Dennis
  • Haidary, Tanin
  • Chowdhury, Mashrur
  • Lifsey, Matt
• Publication Date: 2021-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 244p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Construction projects; Planning methods; Project delivery; Project management; Recommendations; State departments of transportation; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: South Carolina Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: South Carolina
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01777785
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-SC-21-03
• Contract Numbers: SPR No. 744
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 26 2021 3:48PM