Track Maintenance Costs on Rail Transit Properties (2009) / Chapter Skim
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ABSTRACT This synthesis documents agency practices, innovations, and lessons learned in track maintenance costs. Its purpose is to identify the factors that influence these costs.
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The limited survey and interview results indicate that transit agency maintenance is composed of and defined as activities that are conducted on all railroads: rail maintenance, track geometry maintenance, tie and fastener maintenance, ballast maintenance, track inspection, and emergency services (derailment repairs, storm repair, etc.)
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Based on synthesis survey information, all agencies use a pragmatic approach when budgeting for track maintenance. Funding sources are universally from a variety of public sources, local, state, and federal, with transit funding levels that are subject to tax revenue generation each year.
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Some agencies have instituted project cost tracking, creating an objective database for budget estimating and planning. This survey showed that reliable maintenance cost information would be most useful to agency staff as a tool to explain budget proposals, and to document for management as well as funding sources, validity of budget requests.
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• Examples of designs that responding agencies reported as challenging: − U-69 guard rail (short life) , and Direct Fixation rail clip bolts and anchor bolts (susceptible to loosening and corrosion-freezing)
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