eBART: New Technology Provides a Sustainable, Eco-friendly, and Equitable Transit Solution at Half the Cost of Conventional Options
(Room 613-614)
08 Sep 19
3:00 PM
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3:50 PM
Speaker(s):
Ronald Wong, Program Manager; Maurice (Rick) Rattray, Transit System Development, Engineering Project Manager, Bay Area Rapid Transit District; Andy Kleiber, Principal Construction Manager, MNS Engineers, Inc.; Dan Elshire, Project Manager, Stacy and Witbeck, Inc.
San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has been providing rapid transit in safe, affordable, equitable, and environmentally-friendly ways for over 40 years. The latest BART train extension from Antioch to Pittsburg, California (known as the eBART project) used state-of-the-art Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) technology to bring an environmentally-friendly mass transit commuting alternative to a rapidly developing and increasingly congested region. This project brought rail service to an under-served community as quickly as possible—and at half the cost of BART’s conventional train. Learn how BART’s first venture with DMU technology on the highly complex eBART project is a model for a cost-effective method of implementing a rail transit extension that successfully balances the public investment with the ridership generated. Hear about the challenges, solutions and immense success of the eBART project with a ridership more than double the predicted numbers.