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Title: APPLYING ENGINEERING SOCIETY STANDARDS IN TRANSIT
Accession Number: 00765890
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: There has recently been a groundswell of activity designed to promote standards in the transit industry, including bus, rail, light rail, commuter rail, and automated people movers (APMs). By making equipment procurement a more rational process, standards lead to annual savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition, recent legislation increases the role played by standards in the federal regulatory process. This article describes important new standardization activities under way in the transit industry, and explains why much of this activity is making use of standards organizations operated by engineering societies. The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project G-4, Developing Standards for System and Subsystem Interfaces in Electric Rail Passenger Vehicles, which was initiated in January 1996, has played a pivotal role in these efforts, leveraging a small amount of federal research and development funds to help foster a major new cost savings initiative.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: McGean, T JPagination: p. 9-14
Publication Date: 1999-5
Serial: Features: Figures
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; Photos; References
(7)
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jul 8 1999 12:00AM
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