Primary influential factors in the management of public transportation projects in Taiwan

The primary influential factors must be screened out to improve the efficiency of management of public projects. This study synthesizes 91 possible influential factors in the management of transportation projects in Taiwan. Following the procedures of the multicriteria evaluation method and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP), the primary influential factors are screened out and ranked in order of priority. After analysis, it was found that the top five primary influential factors for responsible entities are (i) introduction of the earned value analysis, (ii) efficiency of the geotechnical survey, (iii) environmental laws and regulations of the local government, (iv) price-index fluctuation, and (v) on-site safety management. The top five factors ranked by the supervisory entities are (i) manpower, (ii) revision of laws and regulations, (iii) price-index fluctuation, (iv) traffic conditions, and (v) mistakes or faults of design. In the contractor phase, the top five factors are (i) bidding price, (ii) scope of the contractor, (iii) price-index fluctuation, (iv) management education and training system, and (v) government procurement act.