In 1977, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration initiated and sponsored a transit industry cooperative program to synthesize the most effective rapid transit car system design practices of North American transit authorities into one document. To ensure the practicality of the operators' recommendations, the carbuilders and suppliers also participated. In 26 working sessions over a four-year period, transit industry representatives reviewed and refined the draftforms of the systems engineering results presented by the standardization contractor. The collective experience of the North American operators, carbuilders, and suppliers in the manufacture, operation, and maintenance of rapid railcars has been translated into these Core Technical Specifications. This document embodies transit industry's best engineering practices balanced against the resources limitations of the operators. The Core Technical Specifications integrate the interdependent functional elements of a rapid railcar into an efficient, coherent car system design. Following operator consensus on car-level performance requirement for a 'baseline' car, performance requirements for each subsystem were derived and specified in language and detail suitable for all future new car procurements. The concept of Core Technical Specifications recognizes that a rapid transit car must reflect the site-specific requirements and constraints of the intended application. To translate these specifications into a procurement document, each operator need only add such completing detail as necessary to ensure compatibility with the purchaser's internal standards, revenue fleet, and physical plant.
Transit Industry Core Technical Specifications for the Procurement of Rapid Railcars
1981
562 pages
Report
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English
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