Planned and Unplanned Track Outages Helping Washington prepare for the unexpected. Washington Metro has grown to become the second busiest heavy rail operation in the United States. As ridership has grown, so have the challenges in maintaining the system. Similarly, when unplanned outages occur, intense demand for rail service makes unplanned single track operation challenging due to passenger overcrowding. LTK was asked by WMATA Operations to develop a Rail Operations Construction Work Windows “Playbook” that will serve to optimize the time and geographic range of track outages for construction and maintenance. LTK’s proprietary TrainOps ® software was used for this assignment. TrainOps ® has powerful modeling of train performance, infrastructure and the WMATA Automatic Train Control sy

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