Foreign Literature

According to Mario G. Beruvides (2015) In order to minimize maintenance cost and

improve rural transit vehicles services, a Regional Maintenance Center (RMC) concept
was conceived and utilized by the Illinois Department of Transportation (DOT) to maintain
and repair rural transit vehicles within a geographical region. The key attributes of an
RMC is the resource sharing between urban and rural transit during their respective idle
time – the urban transit maintenance facility is utilized to provide vehicle maintenance
and repair to rural transit vehicles. Benefits of RMC for rural transit providers include lower
vehicle maintenance costs and better maintenance quality. Benefits of RMC for urban
transit include lower maintenance operating costs and higher maintenance facility
utilization rates. Previous studies show that RMC is a new concept, and research in
creating and managing RMCs does not exist. In attempt to assist practitioners in creating
and managing RMCs, this study examined existing literature and attempted to identify
research, tools, and techniques that are relevant to RMCs. The foci of the literature review
are rural and urban transit vehicle management, rural and urban transit vehicle
maintenance, vehicle maintenance management, resource sharing, performance
measurement on transit vehicle maintenance, and best practice in transit maintenance.
A total of 169 publications were found. An analysis of the existing literature showed that
research in public transportation management had increased significantly over the past
50 years, with 60% of the existing literature focused on urban transit and 32% focused on
rural transit. This study provides an analysis of research relevant to creating and
managing a RMC, and provides a compendium of publications in public transit vehicle
maintenance and management.

Transit Cooperative Research Program (2016) Use of Automotive Service Excellence

Tests Within Transit Standards represent an important program activity at APTA and
within the public transportation industry. APTA, through its policy and planning
committees, has played a major role in the development of standards. Hundreds of
industry volunteers serving on numerous working committees have developed standards
for bus, rail transit and commuter rail operations, maintenance, procurement, and
Intelligent Transportation Systems. These consensus-based standards are being used to
achieve operational efficiencies and safety improvements in services vehicles.

Although some terms are often used interchangeably, types of documents published by
APTA include:

 A generally accepted practice, method, or prescribed manner by which something

is achieved by authority as a rule, measure of quality, or value.
 An established or usual way doing something usually based on repeated actions
or widely established processes.
 General options on how to accomplish the task at hand