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Appendix B - Survey Questionnaire
Appendix B - Survey Questionnaire
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VE is a proven management tool that can play an important role in effective decision making for transportation projects by increasing value through balancing project objectives with costs. While VE practices were initially introduced to many transportation agencies for cost avoidance/containment purposes, VE has also been successfully used to manage the expectations of the interested public and key stakeholders, meet environmental commitments, improve road safety, address schedule concerns, develop new specifications and standards, and, of course, deal with budget challenges.
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OBJECTIVES This synthesis will identify and document the best/current VE practices of transportation agencies in the United States and Canada. SCOPE OF THIS SYNTHESIS The scope of this synthesis deals with the VE practices of transportation agencies in the United States and Canada.
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Always Often Rarely Never Statutory requirement Required to obtain funding Improve project performance Reduce/avoid cost Reduce/avoid maintenance Improve safety Meet schedule Other Comments: 3. Does your agency have any defined policies, procedures, and/or guidelines for VE?
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How are projects selected for VE studies? Always Often Rarely Never Statutory requirement Agency cost threshold Project complexity Stakeholder involvement VE program quota Improve safety Meet schedule Other (please specify)
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Always Often Rarely Never Senior management Line manager VE manager/coordinator Technical staff Consultant -- Design team Consultant -- VE team Other (please specify) Do not know Comments: 8.
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report to? Director or commissioner Senior manager Technical staff External agency Other (please specify)
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≥1000 500 to 999 400 to 499 300 to 399 200 to 299 100 to 199 50 to 99 25 to 49 10 to 24 <10 N/A Please provide the actual/approximate number of trained staff in the comment box below. Comments:
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Other (please specify) Do not know Comments:
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Who is training the agency staff in VE? Always Often Rarely Never VE program manager In-house project management staff In-house technical staff Consultants Other (please specify)
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a as the basis for the VE Job Plan? Yes Similar, but modified No Do not know N/A Notes: a The SAVE International Value Methodology Standard utilizes six phases in the workshop -- Information, Function Analysis, Creativity, Evaluation, Development, and Presentation.
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Always Often Rarely Never Cost modela Space modela Traffic and/or safety modela Quality modelb Risk modelb Business process modelc Cause and effect analysisc FAST diagramc Evaluation matrix Criteria matrix Performance measuresd Other (please specify) Do not know Please elaborate on any additional VE related tools in the comment box below.
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How are the shortlisted ideas selected for development during the workshop? Always Often Rarely Never Gut feel Paired comparison Quality/performance criteria Evaluation matrix Salability of the idea to senior management Champion emerges Group consensus through discussion Other (please specify)
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Always Often Rarely Never Road safety Constructability Traffic staging Environmental impacts Stakeholder expectations/issues Driver expectations/human factors Aesthetics Schedule impacts Flexibility for the future Project costsa User costs/benefitsb Other (please specify) Do not know Notes: a Includes project, product, and/or process costs related to construction, right-of-way (property)
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Comments: Part 5 -- Monitoring 37. Does your agency monitor VE program performance?
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At what level of management in the agency is the performance of the VE program measured and reported? Director or commissioner Senior manager Technical staff External agency Other (please specify)
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Yes No Do not know N/A Note: a The value community consists of practitioners and academics in agencies, educational institutions, not-for-profit societies that promote the value methodology (such as SAVE International, Canadian Society of Value Analysis, Miles Value Foundation) , and the consulting industry specializing in VE.
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