Generalized economic modeling for infrastructure and capital investment projects

Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-32

  Abdel Aziz, Ahmed M ^a   Russell, Alan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Build operate transfer; Economic factors; Probabilistic models; Project management; Risk management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPREADSHEETS;

CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMIC MODELING; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPREADSHEETS;

CAPITAL FLOW; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INVESTMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33244495734     PISSN: 10760342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2006)12:1(18)     Document Type: Article

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