Infrastructure Systems Development
Research
Projects
We are in the middle of a long term effort to develop and deploy decision support systems
that permit public and private owners to make capital programming decisions. It is
our belief and our experience, with test applications, that long term capital programming
offers a very concrete opportunity for engineers and other decision-makers to have
positive impacts on the national infrastructure dilemma.
The realization of this effort is a decision support system called CHOICES (© MIT).
It is designed for planning the execution of a portfolio of projects using project
delivery methods and financing alternatives as variables, rather than fixed constraints.
We are currently working with municipalities as well as public and private agencies
throughout the country in the application of this system.
Additionally, the principal investigator, Prof. John B. Miller, co-led the revision and
implementation of the new Model Procurement Code (MPC) which provides public owners with
more flexible approaches to project execution using alternative delivery methods.
Infrastructure Systems Development
Research is affiliated with the Construction
Engineering and Management Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at MIT.
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