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TRANSIT ASSET MANAGEMENT (TAM) PLAN
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) released a final rule outlining Transit Asset Management (TAM) requirements on July 26, 2016 in accordance with the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) transportation bill. The final rule requires every transit agency to develop and adopt a TAM Plan no later than October 1, 2018 and to update this plan every four years. The TAM Plan is the transit agency’s commitment to effectively manage its capital assets and maintain a State of Good Repair (SGR) to support safe, efficient, and reliable transit.
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
PREPARED BY: Name: Claudette Mahan
Title: Transit Manager
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BACKGROUND/RELATED STRATEGIC GOAL:
The Transit Asset Management (TAM) Plan provides a “blueprint” of how Martin County intends to implement the requirements of Transit Asset Management. TAM requires Martin County to ensure its capital assets remain in a “state of good repair” (SGR) by monitoring and managing those assets to enhance safety, reduce maintenance costs, increase reliability, and improve performance. Martin County is required to set SGR performance measures and develop performance targets based on those measures. Martin County’s capital investment priorities must reflect these SGR targets. The preparation of the TAM Plan is the first step in what will be an ongoing process that requires continuing attention to achieve and maintain MARTY’s safety performance targets.
In accordance with the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) transportation bill, passed in 2012, a national performance measurement system for transit programs has been enacted with the final rule outlining TAM requirements. As a result, staff has devised the following SGR targets, per each asset category.
With the exception of two cutaway vehicles, the County’s revenue and non-revenue service vehicles are still within their Useful Life Benchmark (ULB) period, meaning how long an asset typically can remain in service and fulfill its function, throughout the four-year horizon period. The County will replace the vehicles in the Cutaway Bus asset category in FY19 therefore providing a full fleet, across all applicable asset categories, in a State of Good Repair. This table (above) represents the County’s baseline SGR targets in FY18 for the following year. In addition to these baseline targets, staff has developed the County’s TAM Plan for adoption and implementation.
Under the TAM rule, all transit agencies are categorized based on the number of the fixed-route revenue vehicles operated during peak periods. Agencies that operate 101 or more fixed-route vehicles at peak periods are “Tier 1” providers; those that operate 100 or fewer are at peak periods are “Tier II” providers. Martin County is a Tier II provider. As a Tier II provider Martin County is responsible for ensuring the following elements are incorporated into its TAM Plan;
(1) Asset Inventory Portfolio: An inventory of the number and type of capital assets to include Rolling Stock.
(2) Asset Condition Assessment: A condition assessment of those inventoried assets for which the County has direct ownership and capital responsibility.
(3) Decision Support Tools & Management Approach: A description of the analytical processes and decision-support tools that the County uses to estimate capital investment needs over time, and develop its investment prioritization.
(4) Investment Prioritization: MARTY’s project based prioritization of investments, developed in accordance with 49 CFR S.S. 625.33.
The TAM Plan includes all the required elements to comply with the TAM Plan final rule and is attached to this agenda item.
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LEGAL SUFFICIENCY REVIEW:
This item has been reviewed for legal sufficiency to determine whether it is consistent with applicable law.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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Move that the Board approve and adopt the Transit Asset Management (TAM) Plan.
ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Pull this item from the Consent Agenda.
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