Bidding ratios to predict highway project costs

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-51

  Williams, Trefor P ^a  

^a the State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Costs; Neural nets; Regression analysis; Roads

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CORRELATION METHODS; COSTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; LINEARIZATION; MANAGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; STEEL;

CONTRACTORS; HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; REGRESSION MODELS;

HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 13844297452     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09699980510576880     Document Type: Article

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