Value Engineering for Bus Maintenance Facilities: Program Digest

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary ; United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bus garages
  • Capital costs
  • Demonstration projects
  • Design
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Life cycle costing
  • Maintenance facilities
  • Operating costs
  • Value engineering
  • Design criteria
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-UMTA-87-3;UMTA-MA-06-0120-87-2
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527209
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  Value Engineering (VE) is a procedure used to reduce the total cost of performing a required function, without sacrificing quality or safety. The concept of VE, which is over 40 years old, was primarily used in manufacturing industries and began to be applied to building construction over the last 20 years. It is now found that VE has a vast potential for reducing both capital and operational costs of transit maintenance facilities. This digest presents a synopsis of the structure and application of VE and a documentation of the two demonstration projects sponsored by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration as applied to the design of transit bus storage and maintenance facilities.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11910/dot_11910_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1015.25 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:eaec194220418e0796c5ec9060010ca588ef4dc02848228af15d66c66a86dce6