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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 40 1 6 20 120
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 41 1 8 18 101
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 43 1 8 19 65
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 2 55 0 6 19 101
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 1 7 74 1 12 65 185
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 76 1 3 9 264
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 1 3 5 311 1 9 20 756
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 2 50 0 1 15 111
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 2 14 1 3 12 76
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 2 3 97 3 12 31 235
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 0 5 15 70
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 1 2 14 1,463 4 26 63 2,962
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 1 3 5 25 2 10 25 79
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 2 5 12 335 5 14 48 515
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 2 11 53
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 1 4 13 103
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 0 3 22 0 8 20 82
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 3 26 0 1 15 44
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 2 29 0 4 27 90
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 1 1 9 79
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 1 6 27 584 4 20 71 1,007
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 1 3 5 48 2 16 32 108
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 1 2 16 83
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 151 0 1 17 246
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 2 215 1 4 28 528
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 1 6 50 0 10 25 119
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 1 2 12 1 10 28 61
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 0 3 38 5 27 59 132
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 1 1 16 0 4 25 77
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 0 4 18 51
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 0 1 21 143
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 1 44 3 5 22 146
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 3 12 205 4 23 81 358
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 31 3 11 18 57
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 4 28 2 11 30 59
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 1 46 8 25 81 266
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 1 8 32 196
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 1 5 96 5 10 23 106
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 0 3 7 62
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 1 4 9 256 1 12 34 443
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 1 3 127 0 21 56 304
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 2 3 15 241 6 39 144 540
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 2 31 0 2 13 86
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 4 134 1 6 18 309
Total Working Papers 11 42 179 5,435 71 418 1,373 11,578


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 1 3 17 259
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 1 19 1 6 33 142
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 7 2 8 16 60
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 2 4 10 53 16 37 57 200
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 15
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 2 14 1 5 20 91
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 0 10 12 30
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 1 3 49 3 16 81 330
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 1 2 13 1 18 48 107
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 4 10 21 96
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 4 17 57 134 30 99 243 476
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 1 3 8 3 10 29 54
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 1 4 11 4 14 38 73
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 4 51 1 7 19 183
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 1 33 2 10 24 142
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 3 10 140
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 0 7 1 3 9 49
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 1 18 3 12 27 158
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 4 8 96
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 3 59 0 7 33 231
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 1 11 5 26 58 129
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 38
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 5 59 4 14 43 274
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 0 1 10 65 6 17 71 264
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 3 5 34 2 10 30 118
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 1 6 22 122
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 1 5 18 7 17 47 101
Total Journal Articles 6 32 121 875 98 374 1,032 3,996


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 0 6 18 32
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 6 18 32


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 1 2 6 87 2 3 19 289
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 2 7 55
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 1 3 26 0 5 16 79
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 0 8 34 60
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 1 3 6 65 4 16 41 331
Total Chapters 2 6 15 188 6 34 117 814


Statistics updated 2026-06-04