New York Sub-Regional ITS Architecture

Element Expanded Functional Requirements: MTA Metro-North Maintenance Yards

Functional Area: Transit Garage Maintenance
  1. The center shall collect operational and maintenance data from transit vehicles.
  2. The center shall monitor the condition of a transit vehicle to analyze brake, drive train, sensors, fuel, steering, tire, processor, communications equipment, and transit vehicle mileage to identify mileage based maintenance, out-of-specification or imminent failure conditions.
  3. The center shall generate transit vehicle maintenance schedules that identify the maintenance or repair to be performed and when the work is to be done.
  4. The center shall generate transit vehicle availability listings, current and forecast, to support transit vehicle assignment planning based, in part, on the transit vehicle maintenance schedule.
  5. The center shall assign technicians to a transit vehicle maintenance schedule, based upon such factors as personnel eligibility, work assignments, preferences and seniority.
  6. The center shall verify that the transit vehicle maintenance activities were performed correctly, using the transit vehicle's status, the maintenance personnel's work assignment, and the transit maintenance schedules.
  7. The center shall generate a time-stamped maintenance log of all maintenance activities performed on a transit vehicle.
  8. The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to update transit vehicle maintenance information and receive reports on all transit vehicle operations data.
Functional Area: Transit Vehicle Assignment
  1. The center shall assign individual transit vehicles to transit blocks.
  2. The center shall download vehicle assignments to the transit vehicle prior to the start of the day’s operations.
  3. The center shall provide an exception handling process for the vehicle assignment function. This process shall generate new supplemental vehicle assignments as required due to change events which occur during the operating day.
  4. The center shall provide an inventory management function for the transit facility that stores functional attributes about each vehicle owned by the transit operator. The functional attributes permit the planning and assignment functions to match vehicles with routes based on suitability for the types of service required by the particular routes.
  5. The center shall generate transit vehicle availability listings, current and forecast, to support transit vehicle assignment planning.
  6. The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to update transit vehicle assignments and receive reports on transit vehicle inventory status.