Evaluation of the Engineering and Design Scope of Services for State DOT Infrastructure Projects

9 pages•Published: May 15, 2022

Ajay Jadhav, Dennis Bausman and Ehsan Mousavi

Abstract

Transportation agencies across the United States (U.S.) are under increasing pressure to deliver the Transportation agencies across the United States (U.S.) are under increasing pressure to deliver the project more efficiently and effectively. To meet expectations, the agencies are increasing the rate of procurement of professional consultant services as they are facing various challenges in project scoping process (PSP). Since the scope of services (SOS) and PSP are related to each other, this study is focused on evaluation of the available data addressing the comprehensiveness of the SOS across different states. The authors focused on the design SOS and evaluated 49 documents from 8 state departments of transportation (DOTs). The authors then developed a series of criteria for assessing the comprehensiveness of these selected DOTs. Data analysis indicated significant variations across the states in terms of the criteria. Further, weights were assigned to the identified criteria and sub-criteria using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the SOS documents were ranked for their comprehensiveness. Comprehensive score indices (CCi and CCe) were calculated using the level of comprehensiveness and the level of importance derived from actual SOS document pages and AHP respectively.

Keyphrases: analytic hierarchy process (ahp), department of transportation (dot), project scoping process (psp), scope of services (sos)

In: Tom Leathem, Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud (editors). ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 3, pages 227-235.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/KFmn
	https://doi.org/10.29007/3gxt

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2022:Evaluation_Engineering_Design_Scope,
  author    = {Ajay Jadhav and Dennis Bausman and Ehsan Mousavi},
  title     = {Evaluation of the Engineering and Design Scope of Services for State DOT Infrastructure Projects},
  booktitle = {ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/KFmn},
  doi       = {10.29007/3gxt},
  pages     = {227-235},
  year      = {2022}}

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