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TriMet:
Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation
District of Oregon

 TriMet Logo: Link to Trimet Case Study

Summary

TriMet provides transit services to a tri-county region that includes the city of Portland, Oregon. TriMet operates a fleet of 600 fixed-route buses and 105 light rail vehicles on MAX, the regional light rail system.

As part of this multimodal public transit system, TriMet also owns and operates a transportation service for the elderly and people with disabilities. Penske is responsible for the maintenance of this fleet, which includes 215 lift buses and 15 sedans.
TriMet Case Study
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  Challenges   Solutions / Results
  • Implement a more predictive maintenance contract based on a fixed cost-per-mile model vs. a cost-pluspercentage model.

  • Assimilate a new fleet maintenance contractor into the existing workplace.

  • Maintain reliable fleet maintenance records.

  • Execute the preventive maintenance schedule without interrupting the run schedule.
  • Penske and TriMet co-developed a fixed-cost contract, with cost over-run protection clause.

  • Penske assumed responsibility for the fleet with no loss of staff.

  • While maintaining TriMet’s maintenance information system, Penske also implemented ServiceNetSM, a proprietary data collection, productivity and record-keeping system for its own fleet maintenance needs.

  • Penske consistently achieves preventive maintenance compliance and fleet reliability goals.


TriMet Case Study
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