NTL Record

Title Morgantown People Mover (MPM) Operating, Availability, and Maintenance History: October 1976 through June 1978
Record ID 50309
Personal Name
Creator
Watt, C. W.
Source 100p. in various paings
Corporate Creator John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publisher United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publication Date 19791001
Language English
Abstract The report covers the period of operation, dependability, and maintenance history of the Morgantown system (now known as the Morgantown People Mover - MPM) from October 1976 through June 1978. System performance in general improved greatly during this period. System availability on an annual basis rose from .880 for the year 1975-76 to .977 for the year 1977-78. Single vehicle reliability, as expressed in terms of mean time between downtime events, rose from approximately 85 hours at the end of the first year to approximately 150 hours at the end of the second year. The graphs in the report show that performance varied from month to month, but the trend was upward. Sixty-nine component failure types or other causes accounted for all the downtime recorded during the last year. About 61 percent of all the downtime events were due to only 17 causes. The other 39 percent were spread over 53 causes. A complete computer printout of the entire Morgantown data base is found in the Appendix of the report.
Rosap ID dot:11700
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11700
TRT Terms Automated guideway transit; Components; Evaluation; Failure; Failure analysis; Level of service; Maintainability; Maintenance; Operations; People movers; Performance; Reliability; Urban transportation
Classification NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Advanced Public Transit Systems;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Planning and Policy
Geographical
Coverage
West Virginia
Report Number DOT-TSC-UMTA-79-45; UMTA-MA-06-0081-79-2
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/50000/50300/50309/DOT-TSC-UMTA-79-45.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository