USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TO CREATE A RANKED CHECK LIST OF RISKS IN A PORTFOLIO OF RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Authors

  • Francois Jacobus Joubert University of Pretoria
  • Leon Pretorius University of Pretoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7166/28-2-1604

Keywords:

monte carlo, project risk management

Abstract

When introducing quantified risk assessments at a South African state-owned freight company, a skills gap was found during the identification and quantified risk analysis. To help with risk identification, a checklist of risks for railway construction projects was developed. The basis of this checklist was 38 individual railway construction project risk registers that were collated into a single risk register. After the risks had been cleaned up and classified, a Monte Carlo simulation using @Risk software was done that produced a ranked check list of risks. This list of risks is valuable because subject matter experts developed it, and can be used as a risk identification checklist by stakeholders in similar projects. The simulation results also showed that project scope is an influencing factor on the ranking of risks.

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Published

2017-09-04

How to Cite

Joubert, F. J., & Pretorius, L. (2017). USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TO CREATE A RANKED CHECK LIST OF RISKS IN A PORTFOLIO OF RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 28(2), 133–148. https://doi.org/10.7166/28-2-1604

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Case Studies

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