Track Maintenance Costs on Rail Transit Properties (2009) / Chapter Skim
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41 CHAPTER FOUR CASE STUDIES Three agencies -- identified here as A, B, and C -- were interviewed on their maintenance organization, practices, and budgeting processes. This section presents the results of the interviews.
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ii. Define track maintenance department as it is considered for budgeting purposes.
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A B C Maintenance items are explicitly defined in the budget. The capital programs have line items for the support mentioned earlier.
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iv. Surface and line maintenance v.
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overhead level of effort to plan, get operating time, get crews organized, and get to a site, before and after executing a task. The answer will be a percentage (such as 50% or 100%)
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geometry car, and other major investments to replace equipment that is long past its economic life. Even an ideal budget will have constraints, with train operations having priority for track time.
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B The maintenance philosophy is reasonably balanced with a mind toward the ideal of preventive maintenance and accomplishments rooted in the reality of available resources. The system is free of chronic slow orders, immediately corrects any violations of the track safety standards, and vigilantly monitors (and plans to upgrade)
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replace third rail expansion joints in tunnels with air gaps (two end ramps)
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C 10. Design Criteria.
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Parameter A B C Rail grinding (including turnout grinding) Limited top of rail grinding for corrugation only, very little rail profile grinding, virtually no turnout grinding As required.
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13. Track material stocks.
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