Flyvbjerg

Tollers in northeast Texas have coined a new term: "underrun". It's the flipside of overrun. A statement says the last meeting of the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NETRMA) board voted among other items "to request that TxDOT reallocate the construction cost underrun on Toll 49 Segment 3B to Toll 49 Segment 5."

That's one for cost-overrun wonks Bent Flyvbjerg and Robbie Bain to note.

TOLLROADSnews 2009-06-17

Bent Flyvbjerg, the world's premier researcher and writer on megaprojects and traffic and revenue methodologies is moving closer to the world's financial center of gravity - from Copenhagen to about midway between London and New York, namely Oxford England.