Building an Asset Management System

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Building an Asset Management System The
Northeastern Illinois RTA Experience
September 24, 2001 Madison, Wisconsin
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NE Illinois RTA

• 3,700 square miles, 6 counties, 260
  municipalities and 8 million people
• Second largest transit system in United States
• Rapid transit, commuter rail, city and suburban
  buses
• 568 million rides in 2000
• Combined 2001 budget of 1.6 billion

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Regional Transit Assets23 Billion in Value
Figures are billions of 1999 dollars
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Various Asset Types
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RTA Asset Management Efforts

• 1986 Asset Inventory
• 1992 Engineering Condition Assessments
• 1996 Capital Asset Model
• 2000 Regional Transit Asset Management System

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Implementing Asset Management The
Intergovernmental Context

• 3 service boards own, maintain and construct
  their own respective assets
• Railroads, CDOT, IDOT, Counties and
  Municipalities own, maintain and construct
  transit assets
• RTA approves and funds annual 5-year capital
  program for entire region, incorporating Federal,
  State and local money

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ExampleTraffic Signals

• There are over 6,700 traffic signals in the RTAs
  service area
• The City of Chicago, IDOT, 6 county DOTs and
  private entities all own signals--not transit
• Critical ITS projects utilizing these assets
  depend on coordination among these various
  entities

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Our Implementation Strategy

• Evolutionary asset management system
• User-friendly information system designed for a
  variety of users, providing real user benefits
• Users will contribute their information to the
  system
• As users contribute, the system will continually
  evolve, incorporating more functionality and
  gaining more users

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RTAMSRegional Transit Asset Management System

• Maximize number of users with web-enabled
  technologies and maps
• Data Warehouse Model
• Modular Implementation Path
• Off-the-Shelf Software

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Conceptual Design
DATA
USERS
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Datasets in RTAMS
Rail lines Rail stations Bus routes Capital
program expenditures by stations Park-n-Ride
capacity utilization Garages and shops Rail
station and bus route ridership 1990 2000
Census
Regional employment Political boundaries state,
county, local and legislative Regional sales tax
collections Regional land use Bus rail service
levels Passenger survey results Aerial
photography Roadways
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Pilot Project
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RTAMS Demonstration(Reserved)
A short html demonstration
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Lessons so far...

• Need to increase the number of users, to increase
  the information flow back into the system
• Open, off-the-shelf technology has advantages
• Incremental approach is working
• Spatial presentations are attractive to a range
  of users and they facilitate data exchange across
  organizational boundaries.

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RTAMS Next Steps

• Gain product-loyalty from RTAMS users
• Provide access to more users
• Continue with planned enhancements
• Incorporate user-suggested improvements
• Evaluate continuing evolution of RTAMS

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Building an Asset Management System The
Northeastern Illinois RTA Experience
September 24, 2001 Madison, Wisconsin