1. Gabe Taba | Naeem Farooqi
City of Windsor | WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
Long-Term Sustainable Transit Asset Management Models

2. Background
Originally known as the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway (SW&A), public transportation has served Windsor since 1850 and the City of Windsor stakes claim to several historic firsts on the national public transportation scene

3. Making History
Canada's first electric street railway began operating in Windsor on May 28, 1886
Windsor became the first Canadian city with an all-electric transit system in 1891
Canada's first trolley bus operation was the Lincoln Road line in the Windsor suburb of Walkerville, which commenced public service on May 4, 1922.

4. Making History
From the beginning of buses in Windsor in 1938, the SW&A Railway earned the reputation of operating one of the best-maintained transit fleets in Canada, a reputation proven by numerous maintenance awards that continues to this day.
Ridership surged and peaked in 1945 with over 39 million passengers.
At the end of the war, Windsor was operating 177 Fords, the largest such fleet in Canada.

5. Operations Overview Service Area: 121,000 square km Operating Data:
6.3 million passenger trips annually
268 staff working out of 131,000 sq.ft central facility
Weekday service consists of 84 revenue fleet vehicles that
service 13 primary routes to cover peak hour demand
770 hours of daily revenue fleet time (286,419 revenue
hours annually)

6. Operations Overview Operating/Fleet Data:
12 transit buses, 102 of which are fully accessible
26 percent of total fleet is using alternative fuel
Avg. revenue fleet vehicle age is 11.3 years
3 million litres clean diesel fuel annually
5.7 million km driven annually
72 buses in service during peak weekends and evenings
Special International border service and special event
service
Greyhound service and support

7. Industry Overview
Naeem’s Comments

8. Industry Overview
Naeem’s Comments

9. Asset Management Plans
City of Windsor AMP:
Roads and structures
Sanitary and storm water infrastructure
Water reclamation
Corporate Facilities
Parks
Information Technology
Corporate fleet
Public Transit???

10. Project Deliverables Transit Windsor asset inventory data gathering
Asset evaluation and criteria development
Fleet lifecycle costing
20-year lifecycle costing modelling;
In-house rebuilt program cost comparison
In-house rebuilt strategy and recommendation
Review of scheduled maintenance practice vs. industry practice
Provide scheduled maintenance recommendations for TW
Development of KPIs for maintenance and asset tracking
Business case development
Transit skills compatibility analysis.

11. Current State The good:
Transit Windsor has strong management in place with
recent history of positive change management results
Skilled trades department has very strong workforce
producing very positive results
Transit Windsor has a positive maintenance personnel to
bus ratio
Transit Windsor facilities are more than adequate to
manage its current operations with room for
potential expansion

12. Current State Room for Improvement: Average fleet age is 11.3 years
Oldest assets approaching 30 years
Bus spare ratio of 33% (sample avg. is 22.5%)
Mean Distance between Failures for study year is km
(industry avg. is 10,000 – 12,000 kilometres)
Rebuild program inefficiencies with potential savings of 64%
left on table
Overall asset condition rating of Poor based on sample
asset inspections
MTO inspections schedule of 3 months (industry
average is 12 months)

13. Asset Analysis Diesel vs Diesel Electric Hybrid Comparison
Cost Comparison
Diesel
Hybrid
Net Difference /Year
Capital Cost per Bus
$464,584
$615,345
Annual Kilometres
53,000
Fuel Cost / Kilometres
0.559
0.481
Maintenance Cost / Kilometre
0.170
0.338
Capital Cost / Year
$25,810
$34,186
Fuel Cost / Year
$29,627
$25,493
Avg. Annual Capital + Fuel
$55,438
$59,680
$4,242
Potential Extraordinary Maintenance
Batteries
$25,000
Electronic Control Modules
$200,000
Allison Drive Module
$100,000
Total
$325,000
Avg. Annual Extraordinary Maintenance $0
$18,056
Additional Life Costs / Hybrid
$77,734
$22,298

14. Project Outcomes Annual Cost Comparison Actual 2014 Projected
Bus Life in Years
Up to 30 Years 18 16 14 12
Average Annual Replacement Qty.
6.5
5.7
6.4 7 8
Direct Maintenance
$2,657,927
$2,381,898
$2,186,857
$2,111,288
$1,976,043
Diesel Fuel
$3,112,026
$3,059,483
$3,035,883
$3,024,980
$2,998,309
PM Backlog Potential Costs
$116,000
$150,000 $0
PowerTrain Rebuild
$188,898
Actual Total Operating Expenditures
$6,074,851
$5,780,279
$5,561,638
$5,475,166
$5,163,250
Potential Cost Savings
$294,572
$513,213
$599,685
$911,601

15. Project Outcomes Annual Cost Comparison Actual 2014 Projected
Bus Life in Years
Up to 30 Years 18 16 14 12
Average Annual Replacement Qty.
6.5
5.7
6.4 7 8
Used Bus Purchases
$142,865 $0
Mid Life Overhaul
$678,541
$763,359
$838,198
Annual Capital - New Buses
$3,741,881
$2,638,309
$2,968,098
$3,259,088
$3,724,672
Salvage
($29,862)
($12,087)
($19,125)
($42,000)
($64,000)
Warranty Claims
($6,786)
($5,916)
($6,656)
($7,308)
($8,352)
Actual Total Capital Expenditures
$3,848,098
$3,298,847
$3,705,676
$4,047,978
$3,652,320
Potential Cost Savings
$549,251
$142,422
($199,880)
$195,778
Total Annual Expenditures
$9,922,949
$9,079,126
$9,267,314
$9,523,144
$8,815,570
Total Cost Savings
$843,823
$655,635
$399,805
$1,107,379

16. Questions? Contact Me: Contact Me: Gabe Taba Naeem Farooqi
City of Windsor
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Naeem Farooqi
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff