U.S. Transportation Secretary Chao Reminds Transit Industry of Important Rail Transit Safety Deadline at APTA Annual Meeting

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that Minnesota is the second of 30 states to receive FTA certification for its State Safety Oversight (SSO) Program. Federal law requires states with rail transit systems to establish an FTA-certified SSO Program by April 15, 2019...

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2016 Vehicles

Gives the age distribution and lifetime mileage of each agency's fleet, by vehicle type, and vehicle count by type per agency.

2016 Track and Roadway

Provides miles of track and roadway and grade crossings operated on by each agency, mode, and type of service, organized into categories by its physical characteristics.

Keywords: exclusive right of way, mixed traffic, elevated on structure, elevated on fill, open cut, subway, tunnel, controlled access, fixed guideway

2016 Stations

Gives the number of stations used by each agency, mode, and type of service.

Keywords: passenger station, ada accessible, inaccessible, elevator, escalator, multi-modal station, stops, transit centers, transit hubs

2016 Service

Contains data on service operated, organized by agency, mode, and type of service.

Keywords: vehicle, spare, mile, hour, schedule, directional route mile, drm, revenue mile, vehicle mile, vrm, revenue hour, vehicle hour, vrh, unlinked passenger trip, upt, ridership, boarding, passenger mile, pm, pmt, service supplied, service consumed, ridership, efficiency, train, speed, trip length, passengers per hour, deadhead

2016 Operating Expenses

Gives operating expense for each agency, mode, and type of service, divided among NTD's four expense functions, or among NTD's object classes.

Keywords: vehicle operations, vehicle maintenance, non-vehicle maintenance, facility maintenance, general administration, operations, cost, financial reports, financial records, labor, operator salaries, wages, fringe benefits, services, utilities, taxes, tires, fuel, purchased transportation

2016 Metrics

Contains ratios describing service and cost for each agency, mode, and type of service.

Keywords: fare recovery ratio, farebox, operating expense, operating cost, unlinked passenger trip, ridership, boarding, fare per trip, average fares, fare earnings, fare revenues, cost per hour, passengers per hour, cost per passenger, cost per passenger mile

2016 Maintenance Facilities

Contains data on maintenance facilities used by each agency, mode, and type of service.

Keywords: facility size, ownership, owned, leased, garage, heavy maintenance, transit garages, maintenance garages

2016 Funding Sources

Contains sources of revenue applied to operating or capital expenses.

Keywords: operating cost, fare, fund, tax, 5307, uaf, federal, state, local, directly generated, revenues, grant