Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness

Managing large-scale transportation infrastructure projects is difficult due to frequent misinformation about the costs which results in large cost overruns that often threaten the overall project viability. This paper investigates the explanations for cost overruns that are given in the literature....

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Main Authors: Chantal C. Cantarelli, Bent Flyvbjerg, Eric J.E. Molin, Bert van Wee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TU Delft OPEN Publishing 2010-03-01
Series:European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
Online Access:https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ejtir/article/view/2864