A Review of Structural Decision Models for Highway Construction Projects Management

Abstract

The construction project management process begins with identification of the user requirement, project constraints, resource needs, and establishment of realistic objectives to meet the strategic goals. The vital role played by Indian National Highways on India’s economy and security. Thus the Indian government designed different programmes for the development of National Highways that run throughout the length and breadth of the country. Construction of National Highways in India poses a major challenge as they have to traverse through varied geographic conditions with wide variety of geological, climatic and sociological complexities. These complexities necessitate need for proper management of men, material and machineries for the construction. Such complexities can be addressed by proper scheduling of construction projects. It is noticed that project schedules prepared by conventional techniques are not accurate and require lot of updating and rescheduling. In this research work we attempt to present effective solution for the highway construction management based on novel structural decision model in order optimize cost efficiency, safety, and durability parameters. In this paper we have presented the study on highway construction projects management using design of structural decision model. It focusses the importance of traffic construction project management and the review of existing models for construction management.