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Please read and explain the answers for three questions in detail and please for the first question answer it defining about which one are the cost trade offs Expediting Los Angeles Freeway Repairs after the Earthquake Some years ago, at 4:31 A.M., a 6.8 magnitude earth- 2. Significant incentives/disincentives were built quake hit Los Angeles and collapsed large sections of into the contracts, the incentive depending on four major freeways, snarling one million commuters the value of the construction under consideration. in daily gridlock for the indefinite future. Clearly, One firm spent heavily on overtime, extra equip- solutions to this crisis were of the highest priority. ment rentals, and bonuses to keep working "Caltrans," the Califomia Department of Transporta-24 hours a day, rain or shine, and came in tion, sprung into action with a three-pronged attack. 74 days ahead of a contractual date of 140 days, First, they rushed into emergency response, fanning thereby eaming a S14.8 million bonus that became out to condluct visual inspections and close dangerous the talk of the town! segments of the roads and freeways. Second, they initiated interim traffic management strategies for all closed segments, utilizing parallel streets and old 3. All resources of the Federal Highway Administra- ton were made available to work with Caltrans. 4·Force Account" contracting was employed for bypass roads to expand their capacity, change their immediate selection of sole-source contractors. signage and striping, and redirect adjacent traffic The contractor then began work immediately under including traffic signal timing. Last, they planned for speedy demolition and rebuilding of the damaged portions of the freeways. Time was all-important and Caltrans used every tradeoff available to expedite the repairs which would normally take years to complete. 5. Major project management processes were initi- ated including disaster response and an earth- quake recovery task force consisting of top executives in local and national governmental 1. California's governor signed an Emergency aencies. Declaration allowing Caltrans to streamline its contracting procedures so that RFPs, bids, an evaluations that usually took four months could 6. Millions in additional funds were made available through Caltrans' Director, a declaration of a state of emergency by President Clinton, and eventually be completed in five days. Congress. Of the six constraints, which were cost trade-offs and which were scope 1. 2. In what way were the performance trade-offs made? That is, how did they affect os Angeles TY LIMIT 3. What kinds of resource allocation approaches discussed in the chapter were used in h situatioa?

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Cost trade offs- Significant incentives given to get work done and the result is $14.8 million bonus. Due to this 140 days of work done in 74 days.

Force Account Contraction also comes under Cost trade offs as it requires immediate contractors to work under Caltran Engineer.

Millons in additional funds were made available.

Scope trade offs- Governor signing an immediate declaration to allow Caltrans to streamline contracts is an example of Scope trade off.

All resources of federal Highway federation were made available to work with Caltrans.

Major project management processes were initated including disaster, eart quake team.

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