Transit Garage Maintenance Functional Area

Description

'Transit Garage Maintenance' provides advanced maintenance functions for the transit property. It collects operational and maintenance data from transit vehicles, manages vehicle service histories, and monitors operators and vehicles. It collects vehicle mileage data and uses it to automatically generate preventative maintenance schedules for each vehicle by utilizing vehicle tracking data. In addition, it provides information to service personnel to support maintenance activities and records and verifies that maintenance work was performed.

Included In

KAT Transit Dispatch Center
The LIFT Dispatch Center
Knox County CAC Transit Dispatch Center

Functional Requirements

IDRequirement
01The center shall collect operational and maintenance data from transit vehicles.
02The 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.
03The center shall generate transit vehicle maintenance schedules that identify the maintenance or repair to be performed and when the work is to be done.
04The 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.
05The center shall assign technicians to a transit vehicle maintenance schedule, based upon such factors as personnel eligibility, work assignments, preferences and seniority.
06The 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.
07The center shall generate a time–stamped maintenance log of all maintenance activities performed on a transit vehicle.
08The center shall provide transit operations personnel with the capability to update transit vehicle maintenance information and receive reports on all transit vehicle operations data.