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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program:Assessing 10 Years of Experience -- Special Report 264 NCHRP Report 625: Procedures Guide for Right-of-Way Cost Estimation and Cost Management Other Related Titles TCRP Report 138: Estimating Soft Costs for Major Public Transportation Fixed Guideway Projects (2010) Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager Transportation Research Board. "Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications." TCRP Report 138: Estimating Soft Costs for Major Public Transportation Fixed Guideway Projects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010. Please select a format: Page 135   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 135 Front Matter (R1-R9) Part 1: Guidebook (1-2) Introduction (3-3) Chapter 1 - What Are Soft Costs and Why Do They Matter? (4-4) Chapter 2 - How and Who This Guidebook Helps: Audience and Circumstances (5-5) Definition of Soft Costs (6-6) What Are the Components of Soft Costs? (7-7) Typical versus Less Typical Soft Costs (8-8) What Soft Costs Are Not: It Depends on Perspective (9-10) When Does FTA Ask for Soft Cost Estimates? (11-11) Characteristics of the Federal Process That Affect Soft Costs (12-12) Federal versus Non-Federal Projects (13-13) Later Phases (14-15) How Does This Practice Compare with Actual Costs? (16-17) Art versus Science (18-18) Quantifying Soft Costs (19-19) Four-Step Process (20-24) Applying These Steps: Two Example Projects (25-29) Appendix A - FTA Capital Cost Database (30-31) Appendix B - Soft Cost Estimation Worksheet (32-33) Appendix C - Glossary (34-36) Part 2: Final Report (37-39) S.1. Definition of Soft Costs (40-40) S.2. Soft Cost Estimation: State of the Practice (41-42) S.4. A New Approach to Estimate Soft Costs (43-43) S.5. Future Research Direction (44-44) 1.2. Background (45-45) 1.3. Definition of Soft Costs (46-47) 1.4. Organization of This Report (48-48) 2.1. Papers and Websites (49-49) 2.3. Textbooks and Technical Books (50-50) 2.5. European Sources (51-51) 2.6. Summary and Conclusion (52-52) 3.1. In-Depth Interviews with Professional Cost Estimators (53-54) 3.3. Questionnaire Results: Magnitude of Estimated Soft Costs (55-59) 3.4. Questionnaire Results: Drivers Identified (60-61) 3.5. Questionnaire Results: Impact of Drivers (62-65) 4.2. Data Source: FTA Capital Cost Database (66-67) 4.3. Potential Issues in Soft Cost Categorization (68-69) 4.4. Historical Soft Costs (70-76) 4.5. Relationships between Cost Drivers and Historical Soft Costs (77-87) 5.2. Soft Cost Estimation: State of the Practice (88-88) 5.3. As-Built Cost Analysis (89-89) 5.4. Future Research Directions (90-90) Bibliography (91-92) Appendix A - Cost Estimators Interviewed (93-93) B.1. Data Sources for Project Descriptions (94-94) B.2. Project Descriptions (95-107) C.2. Adjustments Addressing Different Cost Categorization (108-108) C.5. Vehicle Soft Costs (109-109) C.6. Soft Costs by Mode and Year (110-112) C.7. Soft Costs by Complexity: Overall Project Size (113-116) C.8. Soft Costs by Complexity: New versus Extension (117-118) C.9. Soft Costs by Complexity: Percentage of Guideway Not at Grade (119-120) C.10. Soft Costs by Complexity: Percentage of Guideway Below Grade (121-122) C.11. Relationships Among Other Category Unit Costs (123-124) C.13. Soft Costs and Project Development Budget (125-126) C.14. Soft Costs and Project Development Schedule (127-129) C.15. Vertical Profile and Soft Cost Measurement (130-130) C.16. Isolating Agency-Specific Effects (131-134) Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (135-135)

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Abbreviations and acronyms used without definitions in TRB publications: AAAE American Association of Airport Executives AASHO American Association of State Highway Officials AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ACI­NA Airports Council International­North America ACRP Airport Cooperative Research Program ADA Americans with Disabilities Act APTA American Public Transportation Association ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials ATA Air Transport Association ATA American Trucking Associations CTAA Community Transportation Association of America CTBSSP Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program DHS Department of Homeland Security DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency FAA Federal Aviation Administration FHWA Federal Highway Administration FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FRA Federal Railroad Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration HMCRP Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAO National Association of State Aviation Officials NCFRP National Cooperative Freight Research Program NCHRP National Cooperative Highway Research Program NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NTSB National Transportation Safety Board PHMSA Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration RITA Research and Innovative Technology Administration SAE Society of Automotive Engineers SAFETEA-LU Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (2005) TCRP Transit Cooperative Research Program TEA-21 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (1998) TRB Transportation Research Board TSA Transportation Security Administration U.S.DOT United States Department of Transportation