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BY THE US, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE




Report To The Secretary Of Transportation


Value Engineering Has The Potential

To Reduce Mass Transit Construction Costs




The Urban Mass Transportation Adminis-
tration (UMTA) could achieve substantial
savings by applying value engineering to the
design of federally funded rail and bus con-
struction projects. Value engineering, a
cost-control program, assures that a proj-
ect's required function is met at the lowest
cost consistent with performability, reliabil-
ity, and maintainability.

Although UMTA provides billions of dollars
annually in capital grants to transit authori-
ties, it has no formal program to control
posts and not enough regional engineers to
assure that mass transit projects are con-
structed at the lowest cost. Instead, UMTA
has an informal peer review program to con-
trol costs on new, primarily heavy rail
projects.


GAO recommends that UMTA establish a
value engineering program for transporta-
tion construction projects and suggests how
the program should be implemented.


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GAO/RCED-83-34
DECEMBER 29, 1962

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