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From: "Academia.edu Weekly Digest" To: [email protected] Subject: Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects - Academia.edu Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 10:47:59 +0000 VAcademia.edu TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED ; ;,,Be Bent Flyvbjerg 112! . University of Oxford, Said Business School, Faculty Member Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects Reference class forecasting is a method to remove optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation from projects and programmes. In 2012, the Hong Kong government's Development Bureau commissioned a feasibility study on reference class forecasting in Hong Kong — a first for the Asia- Pacific region. This study involved 25 roadwork projects, for which forecasted costs and schedules were compared with actual outcomes. The analysis established and verified the statistical distribution of the forecast accuracy at various stages of project development, and benchmarked the projects against a sample... 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