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73 This chapter provides an assessment of trends in contracting commuter rail and summarizes opportunities for future research. Agency Operated New Starts Until recently, legacy systems were the only commuter rail systems that were agency operated.
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74 Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 1: Guidebook and from the outside and subsequently trained a fully FRA-qualified skilled mechanical workforce. Due to the additional complexity of maintaining diesel-electric locomotives, UTA decided to contract locomotive vehicle maintenance.
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Trends to Watch 75 Northstar Northstar is sponsored by NCDA. Under the cooperation agreement between NCDA, the State of Minnesota, and BNSF Railway signed in 2007, the Metropolitan Council is in charge of overseeing Northstar operation, and Metro Transit manages day-to-day operations.
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76 Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 1: Guidebook Under the Eagle P3 project, DTP purchased 66 vehicles from Hyundai-Rotem to serve the four commuter rail lines. DTP will operate and maintain rail vehicles and infrastructure for all four Denver RTD commuter rail lines.
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Trends to Watch 77 – Facility maintenance Unit price per facility – Maintenance of equipment Unit price per vehicle by category/manufacturer – Dispatch Unit price per month • MetroRail. The basis for the contractor's cost for MetroRail includes annual fixed costs divided by 12 months and variable costs based on vehicle hours.
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78 Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 1: Guidebook ▪ Vehicle door failures: no more than two doors may be inoperative in any dispatched train. ▪ Stock failure: trains must be stocked with 100% of passenger amenities.
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Trends to Watch 79 In addition to the information presented in this guidebook, the authors identified a few gaps in knowledge that were beyond the scope of this project but that may warrant further research. • Effectiveness of attaching financial benefit or risk to specific performance metrics in contracted services.
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