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15 chapter three CASE EXAMPLE SELECTION SURVEY RESULTS INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the process followed to conduct a preselection survey to identify potential agencies with whom to conduct the phone interviews. The preselection survey also provided an opportunity to extract information about general trends that could be generalized to other transit agencies around the country.
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16 activities. However, respondents were also involved in other project development phases.
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17 TABLE 4 IMPACTS DUE TO UTILITY-RELATED ISSUES Issue No. of Responses for Each Impact Level 5 4 3 2 1 Not identifying utility conflicts during: Planning, feasibility studies, and programming 2 2 7 5 1 Preliminary/conceptual design 2 6 8 1 0 Environmental process 1 8 5 3 0 Design 9 6 1 1 0 Letting and construction 13 1 1 2 0 Inadequate utility relocation cost estimates due to: Failure to identify and characterize utility conflicts 5 5 5 1 1 Not updating utility relocation estimates at regular intervals during the project development process 2 8 4 2 1 Inadequate identification of utility cost reimbursement eligibility 2 4 7 2 2 Changes to utility relocation plans due to late project design changes 5 4 3 5 0 Difficulty hiring and retaining staff with adequate utility coordination experience 2 2 3 5 4 Difficulty providing training opportunities in utility issues 0 3 5 6 3 Utility staff turnover 0 2 4 5 6 Difficulty getting utility owners to participate in discussions during: Planning, feasibility studies, and programming 1 2 6 8 0 Preliminary/conceptual design 2 1 8 6 0 Environmental process 1 2 6 6 2 Design 4 3 4 6 0 Letting and construction 4 4 2 4 3 Difficulty conducting utility coordination activities with: Municipality-owned utilities 2 4 3 3 5 Franchised utilities 2 4 7 4 0 Other utility operators 2 2 10 2 1 Difficulty identifying and resolving utility issues for: Design-bid-build projects 3 2 6 4 2 Design-build projects 3 2 5 4 2 Lump sum projects 2 3 6 2 2 Other project delivery methods 2 1 8 2 2 Source: Preselection survey results.
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18 technologies, such as digital terrain models, surface models, 3D models, light detection and ranging (lidar) point clouds, building information modeling, or 3D animations, to support the transit project development and delivery process.
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