TCRP Report 138:

Estimating Soft Costs for Major Public Transportation Fixed Guideway Projects

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Publication Year:2010

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Front Matter	i-ix
Part 1: Guidebook	1-2	(skim)
Introduction	3-3	(skim)
Chapter 1 - What Are Soft Costs and Why Do They Matter?	4-4	(skim)
Chapter 2 - How and Who This Guidebook Helps: Audience and Circumstances	5-5	(skim)
Definition of Soft Costs	6-6	(skim)
What Are the Components of Soft Costs?	7-7	(skim)
Typical versus Less Typical Soft Costs	8-8	(skim)
What Soft Costs Are Not: It Depends on Perspective	9-10	(skim)
When Does FTA Ask for Soft Cost Estimates?	11-11	(skim)
Characteristics of the Federal Process That Affect Soft Costs	12-12	(skim)
Federal versus Non-Federal Projects	13-13	(skim)
Later Phases	14-15	(skim)
How Does This Practice Compare with Actual Costs?	16-17	(skim)
Art versus Science	18-18	(skim)
Quantifying Soft Costs	19-19	(skim)
Four-Step Process	20-24	(skim)
Applying These Steps: Two Example Projects	25-29	(skim)
Appendix A - FTA Capital Cost Database	30-31	(skim)
Appendix B - Soft Cost Estimation Worksheet	32-33	(skim)
Appendix C - Glossary	34-36	(skim)
Part 2: Final Report	37-39	(skim)
S.1. Definition of Soft Costs	40-40	(skim)
S.2. Soft Cost Estimation: State of the Practice	41-42	(skim)
S.4. A New Approach to Estimate Soft Costs	43-43	(skim)
S.5. Future Research Direction	44-44	(skim)
1.2. Background	45-45	(skim)
1.3. Definition of Soft Costs	46-47	(skim)
1.4. Organization of This Report	48-48	(skim)
2.1. Papers and Websites	49-49	(skim)
2.3. Textbooks and Technical Books	50-50	(skim)
2.5. European Sources	51-51	(skim)
2.6. Summary and Conclusion	52-52	(skim)
3.1. In-Depth Interviews with Professional Cost Estimators	53-54	(skim)
3.3. Questionnaire Results: Magnitude of Estimated Soft Costs	55-59	(skim)
3.4. Questionnaire Results: Drivers Identified	60-61	(skim)
3.5. Questionnaire Results: Impact of Drivers	62-65	(skim)
4.2. Data Source: FTA Capital Cost Database	66-67	(skim)
4.3. Potential Issues in Soft Cost Categorization	68-69	(skim)
4.4. Historical Soft Costs	70-76	(skim)
4.5. Relationships between Cost Drivers and Historical Soft Costs	77-87	(skim)
5.2. Soft Cost Estimation: State of the Practice	88-88	(skim)
5.3. As-Built Cost Analysis	89-89	(skim)
5.4. Future Research Directions	90-90	(skim)
Bibliography	91-92	(skim)
Appendix A - Cost Estimators Interviewed	93-93	(skim)
B.1. Data Sources for Project Descriptions	94-94	(skim)
B.2. Project Descriptions	95-107	(skim)
C.2. Adjustments Addressing Different Cost Categorization	108-108	(skim)
C.5. Vehicle Soft Costs	109-109	(skim)
C.6. Soft Costs by Mode and Year	110-112	(skim)
C.7. Soft Costs by Complexity: Overall Project Size	113-116	(skim)
C.8. Soft Costs by Complexity: New versus Extension	117-118	(skim)
C.9. Soft Costs by Complexity: Percentage of Guideway Not at Grade	119-120	(skim)
C.10. Soft Costs by Complexity: Percentage of Guideway Below Grade	121-122	(skim)
C.11. Relationships Among Other Category Unit Costs	123-124	(skim)
C.13. Soft Costs and Project Development Budget	125-126	(skim)
C.14. Soft Costs and Project Development Schedule	127-129	(skim)
C.15. Vertical Profile and Soft Cost Measurement	130-130	(skim)
C.16. Isolating Agency-Specific Effects	131-134	(skim)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	135-135	(skim)

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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 138: Estimating Soft Costs for Major Public Transportation Fixed Guideway Projects defines and describes soft costs and provides a new suggested methodology to estimate soft costs based on historical projects. The report also examines detailed technical information about the data collection, methodology, and statistical analysis that was used to develop the suggested methodology.

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Estimating Soft Costs for Major Public Transportation Fixed Guideway Projects

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