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Operating Challenges & Solutions. Beth A. Sullivan MTA Long Island Rail Road Superintendent – Revenue Compliance & Service Quality Jamaica, New York. Operating Challenges & Solutions. MTA Long Island Rail Road 81 million annual riders Over 4,300 weekly revenue trains
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Operating Challenges & Solutions Beth A. Sullivan MTA Long Island Rail Road Superintendent – Revenue Compliance & Service Quality Jamaica, New York
Operating Challenges & Solutions • MTA Long Island Rail Road • 81 million annual riders • Over 4,300 weekly revenue trains • Over 700 miles of track • 11 branches, stretching from New York’s Penn Station to Montauk (120 miles) • 124 station, mostly unmanned (30 open ticket windows)
Operating Challenges & Solutions • Station selling automated • 2002 – 2005 automated the ticket windows and began ticket machine deployment to stations
Operating Challenges & Solutions • Challenges Moving Forward • Open platforms • Labor agreements • Customer behavior • Technology
Operating Challenges & Solutions • What’s next? • Automate conductor sales • Prepare to accept any type of ticket
Operating Challenges & Solutions • Where are we? • On-Board Ticket Issuing Machines Pilot – August 2012 through February 2013
Operating Challenges & Solutions • Where are we heading? • Lessons learned • Conductor focus groups • New application • New device summer 2013 • Joint RFP Mobile Ticketing