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Title:

The Impact of the In-House Staff vs. Consultant Services on the Right of Way Acquisition Process in Mississippi
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Accession Number:

01515890

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Acquiring the Right of Way in a timely manner is often the key element in moving a highway construction project forward to prevent further delays to the construction phase. Property needed for transportation construction or improvement projects comes in all sizes, shapes, and locations and each comes with specific challenges. The use of consultants’ services by most, if not all, government agencies has increasingly become a part of the usual process, often without considering when it is better to use in-house Department of Transportation staff (DOT) for acquiring private property either directly or in an advisory role. The question remains, does hiring consultant service instead of using in-house staff benefit the ROW acquisition process? Do consultant services have an impact on the acquisition process of the ROW? Managers were interviewed about this process. Next, twenty four completed projects over a five year period, with 1032 parcels, acquired by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) were randomly selected for analysis, using ANOVA to test the Null Hypothesis (Ho, meaning the variable does not affect the result) significance. The interviews results indicated consultant services decreased acquisition duration for projects with large number of parcels but sometimes in house staff was required to tie up loose ends to complete the projects. The descriptive analysis indicated a trend to higher cost but shorter acquisition duration with consultant services. The results of the ANOVA analysis, however, showed that consultant services nor the in house staff impacted the acquisition duration and cost to the 95 percent level of significance.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AL060 Eminent Domain and Land Use.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-2087

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Aleithawe, Imad

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

In-house staff

Geographic Terms:

Mississippi

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2087

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:44PM