POST PROJECT EVALUATION OF OLMT: A CONSUMERS’ PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The importance of socio economic projects is critical to the Pakistan’s meta-objective of rapid economic growth. With the ever-changing national socio-economic scenario, the theoretical dimensions of developmental projects, therein a sustainability prospect; need a rigorous outcome based evaluation of socio economic post project impact of such projects: especially from the lens of their absorption, reach and effectivity according to a consumers’ perspective. This is critical to derive desired results from integrated economic endeavors and sociological structuring since with the growing emphasis on human conduct and dynamics, as critical factors in determining the projects’ success, the projects are managed as cognitive systems. Orange Line Metro Train is a pilot project is an abridged endeavor in the mass transit system on launch. Its sociological reach is fundamental. The study builds research design to evaluate the systems and operations as are used and deciphered by the consumer. It proposes specified area of strategic concerns and revisits to policy design; along with validating and refreshing the sociological need of the project. The identified area of research, the consumers’ amenities valuation (CAV), is a rarely explored area of academic research where evaluation of the human factor is ripe to germinate new dimensions to emerging social structure with revised valuation of amenities. Key Words: CAV, Cognitive Systems, Sociological reach