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Mineta Transportation Institute's free report offers a model for optimizing contract provisions SAN JOSE, Calif., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mineta Transportation Institute (transweb.sjsu.edu) has released a peer-reviewed research report, Systematic Procedures to Determine Incentive/Disincentive Dollar Amounts for Highway Transportation Construction Projects. The report offers systematic procedures and models to assist project planners and engineers in determining...

By Trevelyan, James Abstract An empirical ethnographic survey of engineers using interviews and field observations in Australia provides evidence that coordinating technical work of other people by gaining their willing cooperation is a major aspect of engineering practice. Technical coordination in the context of this study means working with and influencing other people so they conscientiously perform necessary work to a mutually agreed schedule. While coordination seems to be...