FY2017 PROPOSED BUDGET

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Proposed FY2017 Budget
Chapter 3
• Since the beginning of FY2016, completed over 800 telecommunication service requests,
work orders, and help desk tickets to address the request for new service installations,
preventive and corrective maintenance, new facility installations, and facility expansions.
• Completed over 700 safety inspections of emergency telephones located throughout the
Metrorail system, Metrorail stations, and parking garages.
Radio Outage Display
The Metrorail radio system is a requirement for the smooth operations of Metrorail service on a
day-to-day basis as well as allowing a proper response during an emergency incident.
It has been recognized that during emergency incidents it is critical to understand the quality of
the radio reception in the area of the incident. It has also been recognized through emergency
incidents that establishing a protocol for WMATA and the Metrorail jurisdictions to collaborate
on radio testing, reporting and corrective actions is critical to public safety. Metrorail uses two
separate public radio systems. WMATA’s system operates at 490 MHz and is used exclusively
by WMATA personnel. The Public Safety Radio System (PSRS) is separate, operates in the 700
and 800 MHz range and is designed for use by first responders for Metrorail emergency incidents.
In response to these needs, WMATA has taken the following actions. WMATA deployed the
Radio Outage Display (RODS) system. The RODS was created to provide information concerning
radio outages or poor reception areas within WMATA’s rail system. It provides a fully-secured
radio outage location map to the Rail Operations Control Center, to WMATA radio engineering
and maintenance team as well as to external first responders in each jurisdiction. WMATA also
deployed a tool allowing Metrorail jurisdictions to report Digital Audio Quality (DAQ). DAQ
allows radio engineers and first responders to provide consistent DAQ ratings for the PSRS. The
DAQ will provide consistent situational and operational awareness across Metrorail jurisdictions
and WMATA.
Rail Scheduling Implementation
This project focuses on business process improvement in rail service planning, scheduling, and
daily operations of Metrorail service delivery. The expanding Metrorail system and complex trackmaintenance
work requires a comprehensive transit scheduling application to provide an effective
scheduling tool and cost-effective operation solution to meet the ever increasing challenges in
scheduling and operations, as well as financial constraints. In particular, the current scheduling
and operations practice could not keep up with the limited supply, the increasing demand, the aging
infrastructure, and the commitment of providing reliable and safe service to our customers.
Optimized and effective usage of the limited resources will be core to solving these challenges.
Major Accomplishments Phase I & Phase II:
1. Phase I Detail Design Specifications (DDS) 100 percent completed
2. Phase I User Acceptance Test for Rail Scheduling 95 percent completed including exports
to ROCS for RPM, PIDS, and AIMS.
3. Phase I and II hardware has been procured and Phase I hardware / software installed on all
non-production environments
4. Phase I production environment fail-over tests conducted
5. HASTUS Oracle DB upgraded to 12c
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