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• The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) operates Portland's light rail service (inaugurated in 1986)
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The classification and job description pattern described above for LRV maintenance is identical for power and signal maintenance. The personnel classification for those working in these areas is MOW maintainers.
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UTAH TRANSIT AUTHORITY Salt Lake City's light rail system opened in 1999. It is one of the newest LRT systems in the country, with only the Hudson– Bergen (2002)
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123 0.75 0.07 Employees per Track-Mile 96.6 0.05 0.17 0.18 0.19 Employees per Station 49 1.12 Employees per Maintenance Facility 2 6.00 Employees per TVM 119 0.13 Notes: N/A = not available; TVM = ticket vending machine. TABLE 6 SAN DIEGO TROLLEY'S STAFF PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS Maintenance Area Percent of Total Costs LRV Maintenance Track Maintenance Traction Power Maintenance Signals and Communication Maintenance Station Maintenance Facilities Maintenance Fare Equipment Maintenance 14.1 16.6 3.3 9.8 14.4 13.4 3.8 TABLE 7 SAN DIEGO'S OUTSIDE CONTRACTING COSTS TO TOTAL MAINTENANCE COSTS
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Weather is not seen as a major maintenance factor. As with LRV maintenance, staff turnover is low: in 5 years only one line technician and one supervisor have left.
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19 mately 7% in station maintenance, with the rest in facilities and TVM maintenance and stores management. Table 9 calculates the system maintenance productivity factors.
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The LRV maintenance area has no outsourced repair work to speak of, and the MOW area contracts out functions such as track inspection, geometry car services, and weed control. 20 TRI-COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT OF OREGON This system was inaugurated in 1986 and has expanded to its present 3-line, 62-station, 82-mi network.
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The main facility remains at Ruby Junction, where all major LRV repair work is done. TriMet has one job classification for LRV maintainers: LRV Maintenance Technician.
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GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY RTA is a multimodal (bus, rapid transit, light rail, and Community Response Transit) system that has served the city of 22 Cleveland and all other cities in Cayahoga County since 1975.
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The RTA system runs mostly single-car trains in peak as well as base service, and runs some two-car trains in the peak periods owing to ridership requirements. Of the 48 LRVs purchased when the light rail line was rehabilitated, 16 are used during peak service; of the 60 rapid transit cars available, 22 are used during peak service.
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territory with some station protection signals, and dark territory. The MOW manager indicated that the percentage of time MOW staff worked on light rail could be fairly approximated by the track-miles of LRT to the total LRT and rapid transit track-miles.
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These crews spend 50% of their time on LRT and 50% on rapid transit stations. RTA has 34 light rail stations and one rail maintenance facility.
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26 System M ai nt en an ce E m pl oy ee s pe r Tr ac kM ile M ai nt en an ce E m pl oy ee s pe r V O M S M ai nt en an ce E m pl oy ee s pe r 10 0, 00 0 Re v en u e Ca rM ile s Si m pl ic ity o f O rg an iz at io na l St ru ct ur e N um be r o f M ai nt en an ce Po sit io ns in O rg an iz at io n Salt Lake City 2.2 2.9 3.7 Simple 16 San Diego 2.3 3.4 4.2 2.9 3.2 Simple 23 Portland 4.8 4.9 Moderate 37 Cleveland 9.2 14.7 Moderately complex 53 Note: VOMS = vehicle operated in maximum service. TABLE 17 COMPARISON OF MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES WITH ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND JOB POSITIONS Notes: When the number of manager FTEs assigned is less than one, the number of maintainers shown will be greater than the actual number.
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, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority (DART) , and Philadelphia's Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA)
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For LRV maintenance, two productivity indicators are shown: LRV maintainers per vehicle operated in maximum service and LRV maintainers per vehicle available. The second indicator is added because many systems have higher spare ratios that may unfairly skew their productivity indicators.
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