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Suggested Citation:"Report Contents." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2006. Managing Capital Costs of Major Federally Funded Public Transportation Projects: Contractor's Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23226.
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Suggested Citation:"Report Contents." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2006. Managing Capital Costs of Major Federally Funded Public Transportation Projects: Contractor's Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23226.
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TCRP Project G-07 — Managing Capital Costs of Final Report Major Federally Funded Public Transportation iv Figure 3-7. Histogram of Results for 28 Case Study Projects by Phase.............................. 68 Figure 4-1. Declining Potential for Value Engineering Savings.......................................... 75 Figure 4-2 Capital Cost Estimation as a Probability-Based Range of Costs ..................... 81 Figure 4-3. General Responsibilities Shared by Project Owner and Contractor............... 87 Figure 4-4. Typical Division of Risk for Design-Build.......................................................... 98 Figure 4-5. Model for Allocation of Contingency Risks ....................................................... 99 Figure 5-1. Linear Regression of Project Final Cost and Cost Change............................. 107 Figure 5-2. Linear Regression of Project Final Cost and Change With Project Type ..... 108 Figure 5-3. Linear Regression of Project Final Cost and Change With Complexity ...... 109 Figure 5-4. Linear Regression of More Recent Project Results .......................................... 110

TCRP Project G-07 — Managing Capital Costs of Final Report Major Federally Funded Public Transportation v ABBREVIATIONS AA – Alternatives Analysis AHP – Analytic Hierarchy Process CM – Construction Management DB – Design Build DBB – Design Bid Build DBOM– Design Build Operate Maintain DEIS – Draft Environmental Impact Statement EXT - Extension FD – Final Design FEIS – Final Environmental Impact Statement FFGA - Full Funding Grant Agreement FTA – Federal Transit Administration FTE - Full Time Equivalent HRT – Heavy Rail Transit ITP - Independent Testing Program LF - Lineal Feet LPA – Locally Preferred Alternative LRT – Light Rail Transit MA – Multi-criteria Analysis MPO - Metropolitan Planning Organization MSM – Multi-criteria Scoring Model NTP - Notice To Proceed PE – Preliminary Engineering PMP - Project Management Plan REH - Rehabilitation ROW – Right of Way TS – Total Sum UMTA– Urban Mass Transportation Administration/Federal Transit Administration

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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 31: Managing Capital Costs of Major Federally Funded Public Transportation Projects: Contractor's Final Report explores strategies, tools, and techniques to better estimate, contain, and manage capital costs of federally funded public transportation projects based, in part, on the experience of the case study projects. A summary of this report is available at TCRP Research Results Digest 78.

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