Abstract  A comparison is made between the Bohm trajectory and Feynman path approaches to the long-standing problem of determining the average lime taken for a particle described by the Schrödinger wave function to tunnel through a potential barrier. The former approach follows simply and uniquely from the basic postulates of Bohm's causal interpretation of quantum mechanics; the latter is intimately related to the most frequently cited approaches based on conventional interpretations. Emphasis is given to the fact that fundamentally different transmission (T)-reflection (R) decompositions, particlelike and wavelike respectively, are central to the two methods: ¦¦²=[¦¦²]_T+[¦¦²]_R (Bohm trajectory approach); =_T+_R (Feynman path approach).