This paper will provide operations and maintenance best practices that are being used to drive design concepts for a new regional rail system in the Triangle Region of North Carolina. This paper will first highlight key operations and maintenance strategies that are driving design concepts. Second, service reliability and maintainability approaches and their importance in the selection of technology choices, balancing capital and O&M costs, and specification development will be discussed. Third, service flexibility in abnormal operations and the resulting impacts in selecting single-track sections, number and placements of interlockings and sidings will also be presented. This paper will conclude by highlighting design choices that are being made in anticipation for future expansions of the Regional Rail system. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E213531.
Samenvatting