Understanding Productivity in the Transportation Construction Industry

Abstract

There is an ongoing long-term debate about trends in construction productivity. This research examines the productivity of the transportation construction segment, specifically the transportation construction industry in Colorado. The paper examines 14 years of transportation data from 880 projects executed in the state of Colorado between 2004 and 2016. By evaluating the coefficients extracted from over 35 linear regression models, it analyzes how productivity in the Colorado transportation construction industry has evolved over recent years. Provided with a rich database, the study focuses on productivity at the more detailed project level, which will help explain the varying trends observed by different authors. This level of detail presents a comprehensive analysis of productivity for a segment of the transportation construction industry that has not yet been described in the literature.

Keywords

infrastructure construction construction management scheduling project delivery methods general performance and performance tests highway maintenance maintenance and operations management highways maintenance

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