Do you provide resources to make introductions to FTA Fleets?
Knowing what type of vehicles/wheeled equipment and the organizational structure that works with a fleet is essential to building the proper tables for creating an AI database that can have appropriate logic developed; this will be different for the types of equipment and will also affect the IOT devices that will be used. For example, running vehicles with the J1939 protocol will require a different device than one using SAE J1850 found on a typical OBD2 Vehicle.
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FTA doesn’t own and operate public transportation vehicles rather than providing financial assistance to transit agencies through formula and discretionary grants for the purchase of public transportation vehicles.
For the requested information, FTA's National Transit Database (NTD) could be a starting point. NTD was set up to be the repository of data about the financial, operating and asset conditions of American transit systems. Transit agencies report data on a number of key metrics including Vehicle Revenue Miles (VRM), Vehicle Revenue Hours (VRH), Passenger Miles Traveled (PMT), Unlinked Passenger Trips (UPT), and Operating Expenses (OE). However, this information might not be sufficient for the Potential offerors to conduct their research on this topic.
Potential offerors can reach out directly to any transit agency/ies if they need detailed data on the conditions of transit vehicle fleets.
