Maintenance Technician Staffing Levels for Modern Public Transit Fleets

Maintenance Technician Staffing Levels for Modern Public Transit Fleets

Transit Cooperative Research Program

August 2016

This report identifies existing tools and practices used to determine optimum maintenance technician staffing levels and provides an analysis of variables that influence maintenance technician staffing needs. A Microsoft Excel maintenance staffing calculator and user guide is available.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Transit Cooperative Research Program; Ken Mall; June Sekera; the Transportation Learning Center and Transit Resource Center