Transit Vehicle Specification Development in Mississippi – Final Report

The Mississippi Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) Public Transit Division is evaluating its current transit vehicle specification process. The specifications are developed by MDOT in order to solicit bids for transit vehicles for subrecipients throughout the State of Mississippi. This report summarizes the study’s key findings, specifically MDOT’s existing processes and procedures for specification development, best practices and example specifications identified in existing literature, opportunities and challenges identified by subrecipients throughout the state, and current processes and procedures of peer state Departments of Transportation (DOT). The report concludes with updated model vehicle specifications and process recommendations to improve the existing procurement procedures.

• Record URL:
  https://mdot.ms.gov/documents/Research/Reports/Interim%20&%20Final/State%20Study%20297%20-%20Transit%20Vehicle%20Specification%20Development%20in%20Mississippi.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Mississippi Department of Transportation

  401 North West Street, P.O. Box 1850
  Jackson, MS  United States  39215-1850
• Start Date: 20190925
• Expected Completion Date: 20211231
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Procurement; Public transit; Specifications; State departments of transportation; State of the practice; Transit buses; Vehicles
• Identifier Terms: Mississippi Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01784438
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Mississippi Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 8 2021 9:20AM