Management Techniques Guide For Bus Fleet Managers

Details

• Creators:
  Maze, T. H. ; Cook, Allen R. ; Dutta, Utpal
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Highway and Transportation Engineering Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Technical Assistance ; United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. University Research and Training Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Maintenance
  • Public transit
  • Information management
  • Fleet management
  • Forecasting
  • Reliability
  • Life cycle costing
  • Information systems
  • Weibull
  • Failure forecasting
• Publication/ Report Number:
  OK-11-0004-1
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527282
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Oklahoma
• Edition:
  Final Report July, 1983 - August, 1985
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  The contemporary problems faced by transit maintenance managers are more complex than those faced in the past. The recent escalation of costs is evidence that existing practices cannot efficiently tackle the fleet management problems of today. The purpose of the Bus Fleet Management Techniques Guide is to provide transit maintenance managers with methods that they can use to derive information for maintenance planning and fleet management. The Guide covers three basic areas: 1) statistical analysis of component and part failure mileages for use in maintenance planning, 2) life cycle economic analysis for component and bus replacement and procurement decision-making, and 3) non- technical methodologies for the planning of maintenance management information systems. The Guide contains easy-to-follow examples derived from actual transit system maintenance records. All techniques can be done using inexpensive scientific calculators. A set of 19 work sheets is provided to facilitate the computations. Some chapters have study questions to further explain the methodologies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  OK-11-0004
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/404/dot_404_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 15.90 MB]
• Collection(s):
  FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ace4c2548ca61704a67278ee9545151941125656ef4b4b53ae566916c3960bdd