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97 PHASE 6 ACCEPTANCE, VALIDATION, AND DEPLOYMENT 6.1 Overview In advance of your ZEBs arriving at your property, you will need to coordinate bus inspection, acceptance, and validation activities that will help ensure your buses meet contractual and performance requirements prior to deployment. This phase of deployment includes: During bus build, a resident inspector should perform on-site inspections, similar to the approach that you have taken with nonZEB purchases.
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98 Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses 6.2 Key Stakeholder Considerations Project Managers • Select a vehicle inspector either from your transit agency's staff or a thirdparty vendor that is familiar with electric drive vehicles and high-voltage system build practices. • Schedule a review on site at the OEM with your transit agency's ZEB deployment team prior to the first vehicle being approved for shipment.
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Acceptance, Validation, and Deployment 99 6.3 Vehicle Inspection The FTA requires resident inspectors for bus orders larger than 10 buses. Resident inspectors must conduct inspections at the OEM's final assembly facility and must visually inspect and road test the vehicles.
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100 Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses configuration audit is to verify that the vehicle meets the contract requirements, reflecting any change orders, and to reveal any items requiring correction prior to first article inspection. 6.4.2 First Article Inspection The first article inspection should be conducted when the first bus is complete, and all issues from the configuration audit are addressed.
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Acceptance, Validation, and Deployment 101 Ensure that the acceptance criteria outlined in your contract require the fueling infrastructure to be installed prior to bus acceptance and commissioned in conjunction with bus acceptance . Bus procurement contracts have a set period of time for a transit agency to test and accept buses.
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102 Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses • Operating Range: Test the total range of the bus under various conditions, such as in different traffic patterns, on different routes, with different HVAC and auxiliary loads, or weighted sandbags or water barrels. For BEBs, record the total range when operating the bus over the usable SOC.
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Acceptance, Validation, and Deployment 103 6.6 Initial Deployment Strategy ZEB technology will apply additional constraints to your service planning compared to conventionally fueled buses. An initial deployment plan should appropriately minimize the costs to your transit agency to accommodate the constraints, optimize the bus utilization in your service area, and include decision-support tools for dispatch to determine if your ZEBs will be capable of completing planned service.
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104 Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses stumbling blocks. Plan for adequate testing of the new features and document lessons learned for future users.
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