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VI. COST VI-1 This section of the regulatory evaluation discusses the following consumer costs: (1) incremental cost per lift due to FMVSS hardware modifications and associated variable engineering designlproduction labor, (2) incremental variable cost per lift for compliance certification testing labor and (3) one-time capital equipment cost for new certification equipment and new manufacturing tools such as jigshixtures. The agency further assumes that lift equipment will be the primary level change device emp1o;:ed by MPVs > 4,540 kg mass (10,000 lbs.) GVWR and buses (e.g., transit, paratransit, school and. OTRB buses) to comply with the Access Board guidelines. The cost of extending the minimu n performance requirements to lift-equipped MPVs
VI-2 subject to the ADA requirements and will need to be equipped with lifts and only buses with 1 fts are subject to the FMVSS requirements. The APTA estimated that there were 60,250 transit buses in operation in 1989 and of these approximately 11.4 percent (6,869) were remanufactured. Assuming that the annual remanufactured bus sales are equal to the proportion of their in-use population (1 1.4 percent), the agency estimates that 342 - 456 [.114 X (3000 to 4000)] of the transit buses sold annually I ire remanufactured. The proportion of leased transit buses is unknown. The APTA also estimate,; that in 1995, 92.6 percent of the new transit bus sales were lift-equipped.' The APTA statistic:s exclude school buses and intercity buses. Therefore, for 1995 transit bus sales, <strong>NHTSA</strong> estimates 2,778-3,704 [.926 X (3000 to 4000)] were lift-equipped. However, for purposes of cost analysis, <strong>NHTSA</strong> assumes 100 percent will be lift-equipped in future years. Paratransit Buses - The 1997 APTA Fact Book estimates that in 1995 in the US. there were 28,750 paratransit/ demand-response type vehicles in operation. The APTA estimates that the ratio of paratransit vehicles to transit buses in operation was 28,75057,275 or .43.3 The agen;:y assumes that annual paratransit vehicle sales are proportional to their in-use population, whicl would be approximately 43 percent of annual transit bus sales. Thus, annual paratransit vehicle sales are estimated to be 1,290-1,720 [.43 X (3,000 to 4000)] units per year. ' 1997 Transit Fact Book, American Public Transit Association, percent lift-equipped see page 82, pagc' 85 - Table 50, page 89 - Table 54, New Bus Market data. ' 1997 Transit Fact Book, APTA, Page 83, Table 46, Active Passenger Vehicles by Mode and discussic ns with FTA staff.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary..........
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s-2 The annual number of persons in
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11. BACKGROUND 11- 1 Guidelines per
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11-3 and strength; control panel le
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111-2 Generally, there is very litt
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