RAIL TRANSIT ENERGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. FINAL REPORT - CALENDAR YEARS 1995-96

To meet the challenge of continuously rising energy costs for rail transit in North America, the Rail Systems Center (RSC) at Carnegie Mellon University has established the Rail Transit Energy Management Program. This program is a private-public partnership of rail transit authorities, the electric utilities which supply them energy and suppliers to both the transit and the electric utility industry. The long range goal of the program is to reduce rail transit energy costs by 10% or $56 million, annually. The program is built upon an already successful effort of energy cost reduction among several rail transit authorities and the RSC. This report describes the effort expended on the program during the calendar years 1995-96.

• Corporate Authors:

  Carnegie Mellon Research Institute

  Rail Systems Center, 700 Technology Drive, P.O. Box 2950
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15230-2950

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Uher, R A
• Publication Date: 1996-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 56 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost control; Costs; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Public private partnerships; Railroad transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost reduction
• Old TRIS Terms: Energy management
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00723624
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Transit Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: FTA-PA-26-0008-96-1
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 7 1996 12:00AM