PROJECT INITIATION REPORT

PIR

Project initiation Report (PIR): Is an engineering document or technical report that documents the scope, cost, and schedule of a project.

The PID is an outcome of the project scoping effort. The PID is a record of the purpose-and-need for the project, and the approach that will be taken to meet or reduce transportation deficiencies. It is a record of the existing information, initial assumptions, identified risks, and constraints that drove the development of the project work plan. A PID is used to obtain approval for inclusion of a project into a programming document or to get conceptual approval of a project-funded-by-others.

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This definition is based on Caltrans definition of the document.