Title: Scheduling of bus rapid transit station construction project using dependency structure matrix in India

Authors: Fatima Electricwala; Rakesh Kumar

Addresses: Department of Civil Engineering, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007, Gujarat, India ' Department of Civil Engineering, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007, Gujarat, India

Abstract: The bus rapid transit station is critical in determining public transport efficiency. Uncertainties arise due to the urban arterial road layout setup, which leads to scheduling changes and delays in project completion. The secondary data were collected from two BRT stations, including project completion and cause of delay encountered. Conventional planning practices disregarded iterative and inter-disciplinary activities, leading to suboptimal scheduling, rework, and time overrun. The analytical design planning technique (ADePT) has been introduced as a planning methodology that leverages a dependency structure matrix (DSM). The DSM-based scheduling technique incorporates design activity information, iteration design process, sequential activities, and rework risk into the competing internal and cross-stage activities that give optimised schedule sequences. The developed analytical tool fits shorter schedules, overlapped tasks and validation. This study suggests that identifying overlap activities and rework time can lead to the effective use of resources for the timely completion of station construction.

Keywords: bus rapid transit; BRT; station; construction; schedule; dependency structure matrix; DSM; overlapping; rework; India; analytical design planning technique; ADePT.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPM.2025.145908

International Journal of Procurement Management, 2025 Vol.23 No.2, pp.259 - 273

Received: 02 Oct 2023
Accepted: 07 Oct 2023
Published online: 30 Apr 2025 *

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