Highway Construction Cost / Inflation Issues
- Construction Economics and Price Information
- The Construction Economics website of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) provides a number of reports that address historical, present, and future cost trends of highway and other types of construction.
- The Economics and Research page of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association provides a broad range of reports and analyses on the economic issues affecting transportation programs.
- Economic Forecasting Review is a publication of the Strategic Consulting Division of Parsons Brinkerhoff. The 'Economic Trends and Forecasts' section of each publication provides a five-year forecast for construction cost escalation as well as information regarding other economic indicators that are germane to the transportation sector.
- US Department of Labor Indices
- Highway Construction Cost Indices
- FHWA's National Highway Construction Cost Index provides a national price index to track construction bid trends.
- State DOT Indices for Selected Bid Items
- California
- Colorado
- Iowa (.pdf)
- New Hampshire (.pdf)
- South Dakota (.pdf)
- Utah
- Washington
- State DOT Indices for Selected Bid Items
- FHWA's National Highway Construction Cost Index provides a national price index to track construction bid trends.
- State DOT Material Price Indices
- Construction Price Adjustment Clauses
- The AASHTO Subcommittee on Construction's Fall 2009 Survey summarized the use of contract price adjustment clauses being used by the states for asphalt cement, fuel, steel and Portland cement.
- National Highway Construction Price Indexing Information / Guidance / Research
- FHWA's Technical Advisory TA T 5080.3, "Development and Use of Price Adjustment Contract Provisions" (December 1980 )
- Wisconsin DOT, Transportation Synthesis Report: "Estimating Construction Costs And Using Construction Cost Indexes" (.pdf) (June 2006)
- NCHRP20-07 (274): "Price Indexing in Transportation Construction Contracts" (.pdf) (January 2011)
- NCHRP Report 744: "Fuel Usage Factors in Highway and Bridge Construction"