Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI) now offers Transit Agency and Passenger Railway Consulting.
Bringing to bear many years of experience in a host of railway engineering disciplines, TTCI now offers expert advice in performance-based track geometry (PBTG) and infrastructure asset utilization and management, as well as other track and vehicle engineering needs.
Our consultants begin their PBTG work by measuring revenue vehicle performance as the revenue vehicle travels over the agency’s track. Safety and ride quality performance is analyzed and compared to the measured track geometry. This analysis provides customized standards that target safety and ride quality conditions for the agency’s specific vehicles, rather than the generalized consensus standards typically used. This allows maintenance resources to be focused only on those conditions that affect train safety and passenger comfort.
TTCI can work with the agency’s engineering team to apply the new standards for developing maintenance and replacement strategies, maintenance forecasting, and updating maintenance standards to ensure a sustainable state of good repair.
TTCI consultants also help agencies improve their infrastructure asset utilization and maintenance oversight. These efforts begin by turning both existing and new data into useful planning information that will maximize long-range maintenance planning and budgeting, followed by guidance in applying industry-recognized best practices, staff recruitment, and training.
Additionally, TTCI can help transit agencies and passenger railways with:
- Rail friction management/energy savings
- Stray current/traction power negative return/corrosion mitigation
- Wheel-rail interface management and training/increasing wheel life
- Positive Train Control (PTC) planning and implementation
- Communication-based train control
- Implementation of wayside and onboard performance monitoring technology (including data management)
- Improved turnout alignment
- General railway engineering training
- Compliance audits/analysis
- Safety and operating rules review/updating
