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Client data often to blame for forecasting errors, say planners

Andrew Forster
11 January 2013
Input data supplied by clients is a key source of forecasting error, say planners
Input data supplied by clients is a key source of forecasting error, say planners

 

An Academic’s suggestion that consultants should be penalised for producing “significantly inaccurate and misleading” forecasts has generated a huge debate within transport planning circles.

The suggestion of penalties was made by Professor Bent Flyvbjerg in an academic paper reported by LTT just before Christmas.

Since then, his ideas have been debated across a number of web-based international discussion forums for transport planners.

Many contributors have questioned the...

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