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<strong>Capital</strong> <strong>Asset</strong> <strong>Management</strong> & <strong>Investment</strong> Program Vehicles Light Rail Vehicles<br />

How <strong>Asset</strong>s are Maintained & Condition Evaluated (continued)<br />

Pantograph<br />

Type 1 pantographs are on a ten year overhaul program schedule. The Type 2 and Type 3 pantographs are on an eight year overhaul<br />

program schedule. Type 4 Pantographs are monitored through the PM program and the reliability reporting program. An evaluation can be<br />

triggered by either of these or by the OEM recommended overhaul interval (eight years), whichever comes first. The evaluation will be<br />

weighed against the OEM recommendations and an overhaul plan is developed and performed on the fleet. The next evaluation interval is<br />

set by adding the OEM recommended interval to the overhaul completion mileage for the first component overhauled.<br />

HVAC<br />

The Type 1 HVAC units were installed as part of a fleet retrofit prior to the arrival of the Type 2 vehicle. Both the Type 1 and Type 2 fleets are<br />

equipped with a Sutrak HVAC unit, and these units initially experienced a very high rate of compressor failures. To correct these failures<br />

several modifications were made to the Sutrak unit and the compressors were upgraded to a more reliable model. All HVAC units are<br />

monitored through the PM program and the reliability reporting program, and fleet overhaul intervals are based on data collected from<br />

these programs.<br />

Overhaul<br />

<strong>TriMet</strong>'s LRV maintenance program seeks to keep current with the entire scope of vehicle maintenance requirements, and therefore seeks to avoid<br />

requirements for mid‐life remanufacturing for its LRVs. Accordingly, long‐cycle tasks (beyond the 81,000 PM program cycle) are also scheduled based on<br />

continuing fleet condition assessment and design of overhaul campaigns.<br />

Each overhaul campaign bundles multiple overhaul tasks which are due, for simultaneous performance on each vehicle cycled through the campaign, for<br />

efficient overhaul program production. This progressive overhaul approach was recognized by USDOT in a 1995 report as best‐practice in the rail transit<br />

industry, preferable to mid‐life vehicle remanufacturing in terms of keeping the fleet continuously in service at a higher spare ratio and in minimizing<br />

fleet life‐cycle total cost.<br />

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