Abstract: A summary of construction cost and scheduling information is presented for four maglev guideway designs on an example route from Baltimore, MD to Newark, N.J. This work results from the National Maglev Initiative (NMI), a ...

Abstract: This paper reports results from guideway analyses conducted as part of the National Maglev Initiative (NMI), a government-industry effort from 1989 to 1994, formed to encourage the development of U.S. maglev technology and ...

Abstract: One of the major inefficiencies in the use of the critical path method (CPM) in the construction industry is the large number of proprietary and commercially available software scheduling systems. This inefficiency is due, ...

Abstract: This paper describes and formalizes knowledge utilized by skilled schedulers for sequencing construction activities. Although it is recognized that construction scheduling involves many tasks (activity identification, ...