RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SCHEDULE PERFORMANCE THE CASE OF PROJECTS UNDER ADDIS ABABA ROAD AUTORITY

Abstract

Right of way acquisition affected schedule road project .The current research study designed to check influence of Right of way to schedule road project in Addis Ababa. The study adopted descriptive, & correlation research design to investigate in what extent the road project schedule performance were affected by right of way components such pre-acquisition public involvement, property management of the acquired parcel & qualified appraisal. And collected both qualitative and quantitative data through interview & review of project performances of 67 Right of way road projects for the year 2014-2019 and descriptive and correlation analysis were adopted. Projects were measured via schedule performance index & schedule key indicators. Accordingly 9%, 28.36%, 9%, 10.45% & 43.3% were successful projects without delay, moderately successful projects with extension of duration and scheduled about 90-75 %, challenged projects with significant extension time and scheduled about 75-50%, failed projects with very significant extension duration and scheduled performance of 50 % and less & impaired projects totally terminated due to sever Right of way acquisition problems respectively. Right of way acquisition components such as public involvement, property management and qualified appraisal had lower average mean 2.53, 2.22 & 2.71 respectively. These represents Right of way road project begin before getting awareness by victim community about project description, objective and benefits. In addition there is also poor property management practices related with promotion, marketing and selling of property with cost efficient price and finally delay happened due to technical performance of appraisal while taking measurement, sketching, computer aided design, narration, encoding and summarized acquisition with summary number six.