Rolling Stock Purchases - Requirements for Fleets
- Service Life
- 35'-40' & articulated buses - 12 years or 500,000 miles
- 30' heavy buses - 10 years or 350,000 miles
- 30' medium duty buses - 7 years or 200,000 miles
- 25'-35' light duty buses - 5 years or 150,000 miles
- Other light duty - years or 100,000 miles
- Fixed guideway rolling stock 25 years
- Early Disposition Policy
- Like Kind Exchange Policy
- Spare Ratio
- "The number of spare buses in the active fleet for grantees operating 50 or more revenue vehicles should not exceed 20 percent of the number of vehicles operated in maximum service."
- FTA has not established a maximum acceptable spare ratio for rail transit operation
- Contingency Fleet
- No bus may be stockpiled before the vehicle has reached the end of its minimum normal service life.
2005 - Federal Transit Administration