Program Management

This map shows the location of the project. For projects that do not have a specific location but affect a line/route or the entire system, either the affected lines/routes are shown, or an entire service area map is shown.

If you select the option to “toggle the benefit layer,” you will see an approximation of the area that will benefit from the project.

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
N/A

Does not impact Access to Key Destinations

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Accessibility Improvement(s) i
N/A

Project is not related to accessibility

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Asset Condition (FTA TERM Rating) i
N/A

Project does not have an asset rating

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Benefit to Riders i
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Helps to maintain current benefits to riders

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Capacity Benefit and Need i
N/A

Not related to capacity of transit operations or facilities

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Climate Agency Operating Impacts i
N/A

Project does not effect GHG emissions

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Economic Impact i
N/A

No economic impact

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Equity Based on Residential Geography i
N/A

Project is not location specific or benefits entire service area

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Impact on Customer and Employee Safety i
N/A

Project has no impact on safety

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Impact on Operating Cost i
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Decrease

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Impact on System Security i
N/A

Project does not impact security

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Impact to Service Speed/Reliability i
N/A

No impact on service speed/reliability

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Regulatory Requirements i
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No

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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
N/A

Asset is not a vehicle with a useful life

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Project Description

This project will fund the professional services of a consultant team to provide additional program management capacity made necessary by the extra funding from the state of Illinois. Funds programmed in 2022 will finance the second year of a five-year agreement with WSP Inc. for professional services under the Project Management Oversight (PMO) contract awarded by Metra’s Board in August 2020.