Shared Use of Railroad Infrastructure with Noncompliant Public Transit Rail Vehicles: A Practitioner's Guide (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction The evolution of a shared-track project from concept to an operating system is likely to be tedious and extended. Planners should anticipate as much as 6 to 10 years from start to finish, with a potential for unanticipated delays.
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The business case is the tactical constituent that is applied to a specific situation to analyze and evaluate factors that shape the economic, technical, and operational decisions. A business model is a guide to the conversion of technology to economic value, and is vital to advancing the concept of shared use: A business model is a conceptual tool that contains a set of elements and their relationships to express the business logic of a specific firm or service.
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1. The transit authority generally purchases, controls, improves, maintains, and dispatches the infrastructure.
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, the expected costs of the 20 Shared Use of Railroad Infrastructure with Noncompliant Public Transit Rail Vehicles: A Practitioner's Guide Table 3. Recommended business model parameters for shared track.
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project, a gap analysis, and the expected risks. Consideration also should be given to the option of doing nothing, including the costs and risks of inaction.
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Within the framework of the business model, it is clearly possible to balance the interests of all stakeholders to produce a win-win-win situation among the stakeholders. Three of the four key business case issues are: • Key business drivers: these prerequisites should be met; • National business case: the standardized "American approach to concurrent shared-track" should be understood and accepted by federal authorities; and • Stakeholder analysis: all must reach agreement on cost and benefit sharing to produce a "winwin-win" scenario.
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The Safety Case To advance the business case, the safety stakeholders must be satisfied. The business case identifies stakeholders with the most significant impacts on a project and then puts in place a winwin-win scenario.
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transit system. As with conventional transit projects, the SSO usually requires a project System Safety Program Plan (SSPP)
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Achieving Safety Equivalence Equivalent safety is not expressly defined in 49 CFR 211, the legal basis for wavier petitions and approved deviations from the Code of Federal Regulations (see Task 9, subsection "The Waiver Process")
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The approach to assessing the merits uses the tools described in Chapter 4 "Shared-Track: A Handbook of Examples and Applications" to determine the choice. • Business model -- outlines participants and relationships.
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