Empirical assessment of the likelihood and duration of highway project time delays

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 390-398

  Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^a   Labi, Samuel ^a   Bhargava, Abhishek ^b   Mannering, Fred L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AgileAssets Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay time; Highways and roads; Parameters; Project management; Project planning; Random parameters; Statistical models; Statistics; Time delay

Indexed keywords

DELAY TIME; HIGHWAYS AND ROADS; PARAMETERS; PROJECT PLANNING; RANDOM PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

HIGHWAY PLANNING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

TIME DELAY;

EID: 84859563862     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000437     Document Type: Article

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