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In his address to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) on June 2, 2008, Federal Transit Administration Administrator (FTA) James Simpson stressed the need for transit operators to invest “sufficient resources to ensure that our public transit systems are brought to, and kept in, a state-of-good repair”. The objective of this paper is to help establish an operational definition of “state of good repair” (SGR) and then determine how SGR can best be measured. In the absence of a clear definition and reliable measures, local agency decision makers can not establish an operational policy of attaining a state of good repair, determine what it will take to reach that objective or determine when (or if) that goal has been attained. More specifically, this paper considers (but does not fully answer) the following questions: How should the transit industry define SGR? How can SGR (or movement towards or away from SGR) best be measured? Should SGR be based entirely on asset physical condition or should measures of technological obsolescence or service performance also be included?

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09-2556

English

4p

2009

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures (3) ; Tables (4)

Maintenance; Operations; Policy; Public transit; Service time; Technology; Transportation

Fleet maintenance; State of good repair

Economics; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-2556

TRIS, TRB

Jan 30 2009 6:55PM