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    Off the rails: The cost performance of infrastructure rail projects

    Access Status
    Open access via publisher
    Authors
    Love, Peter
    Zhou, Jingyang
    Edwards, D.
    Irani, Z.
    Sing, C.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Love, P. and Zhou, J. and Edwards, D. and Irani, Z. and Sing, C. 2017. Off the rails: The cost performance of infrastructure rail projects. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 99: pp. 14-29.
    Source Title
    Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
    DOI
    10.1016/j.tra.2017.02.008
    Additional URLs
    http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/4094/
    ISSN
    0965-8564
    School
    Department of Civil Engineering
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160102882
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58613
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Governments in Australia place great emphasis on the development and expansion of their rail networks to improve productivity and service the increasing needs and demands from businesses and commuters. A case study approach is used to analyze the cost performance of 16 rail projects constructed by a contractor between 2011 and 2014, which ranged from AU$3.4 to AU$353 million. Findings indicate that scope changes during construction were the key contributors that lead to the amendment of each project's original contractual value. As a result, there is a need for public and private sector asset owners to establish a cost contingency using a probabilistic rather than a deterministic approach to accommodate the potential for scope changes during construction. To improve cost certainty during the construction of rail projects, it is suggested that use of collaborative forms of procurement juxtaposed with the use of Building Information Modelling and Systems Information Modelling are implemented. The utilization of such technological and process innovations can provide public and private sector asset owners charged with delivering and maintaining their rail networks with confidence projects can be delivered within budget and are resilient to unexpected events and ada ptable to changing needs, uses or capacities.

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