Abstract: State departments of transportation (DOTs) typically use one of three approaches to operate highway rest areas (RAs): in-house workforce, method-based contracting (MBC), and performance-based contracting (PBC). State DOTs ...

Abstract: The road maintenance workload for transportation agencies increases every year. To maintain roads effectively, one contracting method state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) use to outsource is performance-based contracting ...

Abstract: In the United States, state departments of transportation (DOTs) use primarily state force (SF) or private contractors to maintain road systems. Private contractors are contracted under method-based contracting (MBC) or ...

Abstract: Disputes are prevalent on construction projects. This issue is severe in underdeveloped countries like Nepal. In the year 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed over 8,000 people and destroyed thousands of buildings there. ...

Abstract: A cost database is essential for contractors to estimate accurate bid costs, and most contractors use historical cost databases for this purpose. Factors that influence bid cost should be investigated so that they are ...

Abstract: In construction projects, changes are inevitable and impact cost, schedule, and claims. There are limited studies on geotechnical investigations of factors affecting cost, schedule, and claim increases on the US roadway ...

Abstract: In the United States, for road maintenance activities, state departments of transportation (DOT) use either in-house resources or outsource to private contractors under various methods, such as method-based contracting ...

Abstract: State DOTs have been using traditional contracts with prescriptive specifications to procure road maintenance work. However, performance-based contracts (PBCs) have been used for design-build (DB) projects after the DB ...