Transcript HUDSON-BERGEN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM

HUDSON-BERGEN LIGHT
RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM
Facts and Highlights
2027B
2027A
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
Description:
Client: New Jersey Transit
Location: Hudson & Bergen Counties, NJ
Contract Value: $1.9 Billion
Contract Type: Design-BuildOperate-Maintain
Performed as: 21st Century Rail Corp.
(URS, Kinkisharyo)
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15.9 route miles double-track light rail
transit with 24 stations
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Over $1 billion in Design-Build
Construction
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20-yr Operations & Maintenance contract
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Includes manufacture of 52 light rail
vehicles
Performance:
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Opened April 2000 for Phase 1 revenue
service. On-time performance of 98.85%
from the commencement of operations to
date.
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System Map
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System Description – Right-of-Way
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15.9 Route Miles – all double track
Operates primarily on grade-separated
right-of-way
Approx. two (2) miles of street-running
(Trains operate in mixed traffic)
Twenty-five (25) Interlockings
Twenty-four (24) Stations
Light Rail Tunnel – 4,096 feet in length.
Station platform located 160 feet from the
surface
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System Description – Fleet Information
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A Total fleet of 52 LRVs
(High Performance, Low Floor Cars)
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Ready Line of 42 (18 two-car sets and 6 single
units) LRVs weekdays; 9 (single units) LRVs
weekends
LRV Capacity on a single unit-68 seated, 120
Standing
MU capable with Dual end operation
Electrified Propulsion System (750VDC)
Full Maintenance Facility capable of:
— Heavy Repairs
— Daily Inspections
— Car Wash
– Body Shop
– Paint Booth
– Wheel Truing
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Hours of Operation & Scheduled Trains
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Weekday operation – 4:30 AM to 2:45 AM
507 Weekday trips (5 min. trunk headway and
10 min. branch headway during peak service)
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4 AM Bayonne Flyers (8th St. Station to Hoboken)
4 PM Bayonne Flyers (Hoboken Station to 8th St.)
Weekend operation – 5:30 AM to 2:45 AM
238 Weekend trips (7.5 min. trunk headway and
20 min. branch headway)
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Stations
3,605 Park-and-Ride Spaces
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Liberty State Park-1296 spaces
West Side Avenue-879 spaces
34th Street-521 spaces
22nd Street-159 spaces
Tonnelle Avenue-750 spaces
11 Stations with Elevator access
8 Intermodal Stations:
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Exchange Place (PATH, NY Waterway, NJT Buses)
Harborside Financial (NY Waterway, NJT Buses)
Hoboken (PATH, NY Waterway,NJT Rail and Buses)
Marin Blvd. (NY Waterway)
Pavonia/Newport (PATH, NJT Buses)
Lincoln Harbor (NY Waterway)
Port Imperial (NY Waterway)
Bergenline Avenue Station (NJT Buses)
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Operations and Maintenance Staff
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Transportation Department:
— 5 Managers, 15 Asst. Train Masters
— 80 LRV Operators
— 5 Movement/Station Clerks
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Maintenance-of-Way Department:
— 2 Managers, 6 Supervisors & Foremen
— 46 Maintenance Workers
• Signals, Track, Electrical, Utility, Facilities, Station Attendants
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Vehicle Maintenance Department
— 2 Managers, 4 Supervisors
— 24 Technicians
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Administrative and Support Personnel:
— 29 Employees
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Passenger Growth – June 2000 to December 2013
50,000
Hudson Bergen Light Rail - Average Daily Ridership
45,000
40,000
35,000
Weekday Ridership
Saturday Ridership
30,000
Sunday Ridership
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
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Quarterly Results, June 2000 thru December 2013
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Station Boardings
7,000
6,500
Hudson Bergen Light Rail - Nov/Dec 2013
Typical Weekday Station Boardings
6,000
5,500
Weekday Boardings
5,000
4,500
Nov/Dec 2012 (45,245)
4,000
Nov/Dect 2013 (45,863)
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2,000
1,500
1,000
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Boarding Station
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Safety and On-Time Performance
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US Dept. of Labor/OSHA Star Voluntary Protection
Program – August 2012
Lost Time Accident-free for over 2 Million hours
Work Period: May 2004 – August 2008
Safe Facility of the Year Award in 2008
3 Presidents Awards
• May 2004
• February 2007
• March 2009
Project of the Year - 2002
81 days of 100% on-time performance in 2013.
26 days of 100% on-time performance in 2014, period
January 1st – May 14, 2014.
On-time performance of 98.25% for period
January 1st – May 14, 2014.
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Major Milestones
February 17, 1999 - First two prototypes arrive at HBLR from
Osaka, Japan
March 4, 1999 -
February 22, 1999 -
Test section (red phase) operations begin (28
months after NTP)
Temporary terminal and turnback infrastructure
December 1, 1999 - completed (modification to the Initial Operating
System [IOS])
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Major Milestones – cont’d
September 8, 1999
through November 12,
1999
Supervisor & Operator training (initial
group)
October 1, 1999 -
OCC established (prior movement office)
March 7, 2000 through
April 3, 2000
Operational demonstration
April 15, 2000 -
Revenue service
November 18, 2000 -
1 Mile Extension opening of 3 Stations in
Jersey City:
Harborside, Harsimus Cove & Newport
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Major Milestones – cont’d
September 29, 2002
Opening of the Hoboken Extension
November 15, 2003
Opening of 22nd Street Station in
Bayonne
September 7, 2004
Extension opening of 3 Stations:
Second Street (Hoboken)
Ninth Street (Hoboken)
Lincoln Harbor (Weehawken)
October 29, 2005
Extension opening of Port Imperial
Station in Weehawken
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Major Milestones – cont’d
February 26, 2006
Completion of the line through the Light
Rail Tunnel in Weehawken. Opening of
the Bergenline Avenue (Union City) and
Tonnelle Avenue (North Bergen)
Stations.
September 21, 2009
Opening of Longslip Pedestrian Bridge
in Hoboken.
January 31, 2011
Extension opening for Danforth
Interlocking and 8th Street Station in
Bayonne.
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Latest Milestone – 8th Street Extension
8th Street Station in Bayonne (Opened Jan. 31, 2011)
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