Organizational Best Practices for Transportation Projects Delivered Using Alternative Contracting Methods

Gransberg, PhD, PE, Douglas D.; del Puerto, PhD, Carla Lopez; Tapia, PhD, PMP, Ricardo M.; Gransberg, PhD, PE, Douglas D.; del Puerto, PhD, Carla Lopez; Tapia, PhD, PMP, Ricardo M.

dc.contributor		en-US
dc.creator	Gransberg, PhD, PE, Douglas D.
dc.creator	del Puerto, PhD, Carla Lopez
dc.creator	Tapia, PhD, PMP, Ricardo M.
dc.creator	Gransberg, PhD, PE, Douglas D.
dc.creator	del Puerto, PhD, Carla Lopez
dc.creator	Tapia, PhD, PMP, Ricardo M.
dc.date	2018-02-11
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-23T17:16:18Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-23T17:16:18Z
dc.identifier	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1432
dc.identifier	10.18502/keg.v3i1.1432
dc.identifier.uri	http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/4235
dc.description	The use of Alternative Contracting Methods (ACM) to deliver US transportation projects has reached a point where a definitive set of best practices can be identified to leverage the lessons learned by early ACM adopters. The most pressing need is for guidance on how public agencies organize to implement ACMs in a budget-constrained environment where the possibility of increasing the number of public agency engineers is nil. This paper is based on mining the survey response data from 6 National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) synthesis reports on ACM topics and proposes a framework for analyzing ACM practices deemed effective by peer-reviewed research to determine if each practice can be classified as a best practice. Importance index theory provides the analytical foundation for the framework and provides a ranking of candidate best practices in order of each practice’s importance and effectiveness. Nine effective ACM practices were identified and evaluated with only one, “appointing an agency ACM champion,” meeting the objective criteria for a best practice. The paper’s major contribution is to provide the suite of 1 best and 8 effective practices that can be employed when developing the organization for an agency that has decided to implement ACM project delivery.Keywords: Alternative contracting methods, best practices, organizational structure, index number theory.	en-US
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	KnE Publishing	en-US
dc.relation	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1432/3242
dc.relation	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1432/3467
dc.relation	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1432/3468
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source	2518-6841
dc.source	KnE Engineering; 6th Engineering, Science and Technology Conference - Panama 2017 (ESTEC 2017); 269-280	en-US
dc.title	Organizational Best Practices for Transportation Projects Delivered Using Alternative Contracting Methods	en-US
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