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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 1 4 41 2 3 20 123
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 41 2 3 21 104
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 43 4 8 27 73
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 55 2 4 21 105
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 1 7 75 2 5 65 190
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 1 76 2 2 9 266
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 1 1 5 312 3 4 21 760
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 1 2 51 1 2 15 113
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 0 14 1 2 12 78
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 1 3 98 2 4 27 239
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 0 30 0 1 15 71
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 4 4 15 1,467 6 11 69 2,973
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 4 25 2 3 22 82
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 1 2 10 337 2 8 50 523
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 0 10 53
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 1 1 89 4 8 20 111
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 1 2 23 1 3 19 85
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 0 26 3 4 13 48
Lock-in and Its Influence on the Project Performance of Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects. Investigating the Way in Which Lock-in Can Emerge and Affect Cost Overruns 0 0 0 29 1 1 23 91
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 1 1 9 80
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 4 4 28 588 6 9 70 1,016
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 0 5 48 4 6 37 114
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 0 23 1 1 15 84
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 151 1 3 20 249
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 2 215 1 1 26 529
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 0 4 50 2 4 25 123
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 2 12 1 1 29 62
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 2 4 40 4 8 64 140
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 1 16 3 3 28 80
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 1 1 18 52
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 1 1 1 75 4 5 21 148
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 1 44 1 1 23 147
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 0 0 10 205 4 7 84 365
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 2 31 2 3 19 60
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 0 3 28 2 5 32 64
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 2 3 48 2 7 87 273
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 1 1 30 197
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 0 4 96 2 4 24 110
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 1 10 257 6 9 42 452
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 0 16 0 1 7 63
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 1 4 128 0 3 56 307
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 4 9 21 250 10 24 155 564
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 31 0 1 12 87
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 1 1 2 135 2 4 18 313
Total Working Papers 16 34 166 5,469 101 189 1,430 11,767


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 18
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 2 87 0 0 17 259
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 1 2 20 3 5 36 147
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 7 0 0 14 60
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 2 3 12 56 13 32 88 232
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 15
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 2 14 2 4 22 95
Do Road Planners Produce More ‘Honest Numbers’ than Rail Planners? An Analysis of Accuracy in Road‐traffic Forecasts in Cities versus Peripheral Regions 0 0 0 2 1 2 14 32
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 2 49 1 7 84 337
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 1 3 14 2 7 55 114
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 0 20 0 2 20 98
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 3 9 55 143 6 41 254 517
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 1 2 9 2 5 27 59
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 1 1 3 12 3 7 41 80
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 3 51 1 2 20 185
Lock-in and its Influence on the Project Performance of Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Investigating the Way in Which Lock-in Can Emerge and Affect Cost Overruns 1 1 1 34 3 4 25 146
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 0 9 140
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 0 7 0 0 8 49
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 1 2 19 2 5 29 163
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 2 10 98
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 1 1 4 60 2 2 29 233
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 1 2 12 2 8 61 137
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 39
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 5 60 1 4 44 278
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 0 1 9 66 1 6 67 270
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 34 1 4 32 122
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 3 3 21 125
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 5 18 3 7 46 108
Total Journal Articles 8 22 119 897 52 160 1,090 4,156


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 2 3 19 35
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 3 19 35


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 0 5 87 2 5 20 294
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 7 55
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 3 26 0 0 14 79
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 1 4 34 64
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 2 6 67 0 2 38 333
Total Chapters 0 2 14 190 3 11 113 825


Statistics updated 2026-09-10