27.9Costing

Money often costs too much.Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet, 1803–1882

Cost of the BRTMC would be directly related to the facility’s size, the quality of finishes, the level of security and control, the number of services housed in the building, and the size of the BRT system. Cost items for establishing the BRTMC include:

• Initial design, implementation, and project management;
• Land;
• Building;
• Boundary walls and fencing;
• Parking requirements;
• ITS/ATPMS equipment and applications;
• Data processing equipment (e.g., servers, SAN equipment, backup devices, etc.);
• Telecommunications equipment (e.g., LAN infrastructure, PABX);
• Workstations and video wall(s);
• UPS and generator;
• Access control and internal surveillance systems;
• Air-conditioning plant;
• Training costs;
• Staff remuneration;
• Additional costs: furniture and fittings, signage, outsourced service providers, plus other operational costs like electricity, water, etc.