Life Extending Bus Overhaul - 430 Standard (1000 Series)

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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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Maintains Access to Key Destinations

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Accessibility Improvement(s) i
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Is needed to maintain current levels of accessibility

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Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) i
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Project does not have an asset rating

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Benefit to Riders i
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Moderate benefit to riders

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Capacity Benefit and Need i
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Project maintains/returns system to original capacity

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Climate Agency Operating Impacts i
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No reduction in emission

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Economic Impact i
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No economic impact

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Equity Based on Residential Geography i
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Project is not location specific or benefits entire service area

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Impact on Customer and Employee Safety i
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Project maintains current safety levels

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Impact on Operating Cost i
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Decreases operating cost

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Impact on System Security i
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Project does not impact security

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Impact to Service Speed/Reliability i
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Needed to maintain current speed/reliability

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Regulatory Requirements i
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Project Meets Regulatory Requirements

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Ridership/Mode Shift Impacts i
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Maintains assets necessary for transit ridership

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Vehicle Useful Life i
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Over 2 years past useful life

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Project Description

Life Extending Overhaul - Up to 430 Standard (1000 Series) - This project will overhaul the engine and other major sub-components to provide the minimal amount of work necessary to keep the fleet going. By end of FY2020 630 buses will have met their estimated 12 year life expectancy. This extension would extend the bus life by four years. The life extension for the 40 foot 1000-1629 New Flyer Bus is essential to keeping a majority of the CTA fleet running in optimal condition. The current fleet of 40 foot NF buses is over 1000 buses. This project is essential to meet availability requirements for CTA. These buses were purchased in 2006-2007 and this life extension is essential to maintaining peak availability requirements at all 7 bus garages.