Systematic Procedures to Determine Incentive/Disincentive Dollar Amounts for Highway Transportation Construction Projects

JAE-HO PYEON, PhD

Jae-Ho Pyeon, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at San José State University. Dr. Pyeon received both his master’s and doctoral degrees in civil and coastal engineering from the University of Florida. Currently, Dr. Pyeon is a university representative on the Transportation Research Board and a member of the Construction Research Council, American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Pyeon conducts research in transportation construction engineering and management and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in construction project management, construction information technology, construction scheduling and estimating, and heavy transportation construction equipment.

Dr. Pyeon has published 22 peer-reviewed journal or conference papers in the last five years. His research interests include seeking efficient ways to improve the highway construction planning and process, assessing uncertainty in construction, and developing decision support systems to assist project planners and managers. Specific research areas are transportation construction project delivery systems, work zone road user cost, transportation management plans, project risk management, and innovative contracting methods, such as Incentives/Disincentives, No-Excuse Bonus and A+B.

Dr. Pyeon has successfully performed several federal- and/or state-funded transportation construction research projects, including “Improving Transportation Construction Project Performance – Development of a Model to Support the Decision-Making Process for Incentive/Disincentive Construction Projects;” “Evaluation of Alternative Contracting Techniques on FDOT Construction Projects;” “Improving the Time Performance of Highway Construction Contracts;” “Development of Improved Procedures for Managing Pavement Markings During Highway Construction Projects;” and “Development of Procedures for Utilizing Pit Proctors in the Construction Process for Pavement Base Materials.” He also serves as an external reviewer of FHWA’s Work Zone Road User Cost research project and as an active reviewer of several major journals in the area of construction engineering and management.

EUL-BUM LEE, PhD, PE, PMP

Eul-Bum Lee, PhD, PE, PMP, has more than 20 years of experience in heavy construction, mainly in the varied disciplines of transportation projects, including design and engineering, project management and control, and academic research. Currently working as an associate researcher and co-principal investigator in the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Lee has focused on researching and implementing innovative methods for rehabilitating transportation infrastructure.

Dr. Lee earned ME and PhD degrees in the Engineering Project Management Program of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He earned his BS degree in civil engineering at Seoul National University. Before beginning his doctoral work, Dr. Lee spent 12 years with Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Inc., as a manager of international megaprojects in Asia, Europe, and North America. One of his greatest successes with the company was serving as the project coordinator for the engineer, contractor, and owner, for a long-span concrete, precast box girder bridge project (the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project in Bangladesh), which was funded with $1.3 billion from the World Bridge Fund, as a turnkey (design-build) project.

Dr. Lee’s research led to the creation of Construction Analysis for Pavement Rehabilitation Strategies (CA4PRS) software, a scheduling and traffic analysis tool developed to help decision makers at transportation agencies select the most economical strategies for highway projects. The Technology Implementation Group (TIG) of the Association of American State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has selected CA4PRS for nationwide promotion to its state members and is considering assigning the software as a product of AASHTOWare for marketing nationwide. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) formally endorsed CA4PRS as a “Priority, Market-Ready Technologies and Innovations Product” in 2008 for nationwide deployment. In addition, the FHWA is in the process of arranging free group licenses for all states to deploy the software nationally in the United States. CA4PRS won a 2007 Global Road Achievement Award granted by the International Road Federation. Recognized nationally for his contributions to the research and implementation of new industry practices, Dr. Lee has received a number of awards, including the California Department of Transportation’s 2005 Excellence in Transportation Awards (Innovation and Public Outreach).

Dr. Lee is actively involved in the academic and professional communities in construction/ project management and transportation engineering. Currently, he is serving as a committee member, expert group member, or journal reviewer for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), AASHTO, FHWA, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He has published approximately 23 peer-reviewed journal papers and 25 conference proceedings in a variety of professional civil engineering society and transportation journals.