A review of metro construction in China: Organization, market, cost, safety and schedule

Abstract

China is now in an era of large-scale metro construction. This paper reviews the nature of Chinese metro engineering with a specific focus on its organization and market mode, cost structure, safety control and schedule management. Then, an examination on recent research in metro engineering of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is also conducted, which indicates that information and automation based technologies are increasingly used in practice.

Keywords

metro engineering / construction status / construction challenges / NSFC

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Acknowledgements

The presented work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation General Program (Grant No. 51678265).

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