Because transportation investment programs have extended time horizons, state departments of transportation (DOTs) must forecast costs well into the future. This poses a serious challenge: the longer the time horizon, the more uncertainty and risk that forecasted costs will vary from actual, future costs.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 953: Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, and Long-Range Cost Forecasting: Guidebook for State Transportation Agencies presents a cost forecasting method for use by state transportation agencies that better accounts for cost variability and economic volatility over time.
Supplemental information to the report includes NCHRP Web-Only Document 283: Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, and Long-Range Cost Forecasting for State Transportation Agencies, a cost forecasting toolkit, a guidebook presentation, and videos.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, and Long-Range Cost Forecasting: Guidebook for State Transportation Agencies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25972.
Chapters | skim | |
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Front Matter | i-viii | |
Chapter 1 - Introduction | 1-7 | |
Chapter 2 - Framework for Selecting a Cost Forecasting Approach | 8-14 | |
Chapter 3 - Cost Indexing Alternatives | 15-36 | |
Chapter 4 - Index-Based Cost Forecasting Approaches | 37-44 | |
Chapter 5 - Cost Forecasting Tool Kit | 45-53 | |
Acronyms | 54-54 | |
References | 55-58 |
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