Woodstock Yard

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Each capital project is measured on 15 evaluation metrics to better understand its impact on the region. Learn more about the metrics and see a legend for all measures here.

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The degree to which a project improves regional access to the region’s key destinations. Including jobs, retail, healthcare, recreation, and education.

The project improvements to existing assets to make them partially or fully accessible. Including station/stop and area improvements, vehicle accessibility, and accessible communications.

The project impact to ratings from the FTA Transit Economic Requirements Model (TERM).

The project’s minor or major benefits to riders and what proportion of the agency’s riders will benefit from it.

The project impact on overall capacity, reflecting current and planned levels of utilization.

The project impact on reductions or offsets to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from transit operations.

Project impacts on land use and development, construction, and long-term jobs.

The distribution of project benefits to location(s) identified under the USDOT Justice40 Program.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

The project impact on operating costs.

The project impact to maintenance or improvement of exposure to risk for riders/employees and the project impact to security enhancement.

Project impact on maintenance or improvement of service speed and reliability, considering both direct and indirect impacts.

If required, whether or not the project complies with federal, state, local, or other regulatory mandates.

The project impact to climate benefits, such as a reduction in emissions, generated from mode shift to transit and away from private auto-use.

The Project impact to average vehicle ages, compared with Service board benchmarks to prioritize replacing vehicles that are beyond their useful life.

Evaluation Metric Measure
Access to Key Destinations i
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Significantly improves Access to Key Destinations

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Accessibility Improvement(s) i
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Project is not related to accessibility

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Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) i
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Asset(s) rated 2-3

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Benefit to Riders i
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Significant benefit to riders

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Capacity Benefit and Need i
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Project increases capacity of transit operations near capacity

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Climate Agency Operating Impacts i
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Project does not effect GHG emissions

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Economic Impact i
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Large impact on economic development

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Equity Based on Residential Geography i
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Scores 3-5 in Justice40 metric 'Sum of Disadvantage Indicators'

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Impact on Customer and Employee Safety i
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Project indirectly provides safety benefit/improvement

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Impact on Operating Cost i
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No change in operating cost

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Impact on System Security i
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Project enhances existing security level

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Impact to Service Speed/Reliability i
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Significantly improves speed/reliability

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Regulatory Requirements i
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No regulatory requirements met for this project

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Ridership/Mode Shift Impacts i
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Moderately improves transit ridership

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Vehicle Useful Life i
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Asset is not a vehicle with a useful life

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Project Description

This project will create a new yard in Woodstock, with room to store 14 trains, representing a 30% increase in capacity relative to current conditions. The yard will contain office and garage space, as well as a break room, communications rooms, lockers, and a parking lot. By storing trains at Woodstock, it will reduce the need to store trains on yards at Crystal Lake and Barrington, thereby allowing more trains to stop at stations northwest of Barrington on the Union Pacific Northwest line, and also removing idling trains from idling in downtown areas.