Performance & Revenue Enhancement
Team Management
Rail Smith Performance Solutions is your trusted railroad management consultant. Our unique performance and revenue enhancement team management approach offers a wealth of benefits designed to transform your railroad operations. Continue reading to learn more about Rail Smith Performance Team Management's (PTM) key benefits.
Rail Smith - PTM Provides Numerous Great Key Benefits
1. Strategic Branding, Social Media, Internal Competition & Performance Rewards Initiatives
Launches impactful marketing campaigns across various social and other public media channels to announce new performance team management, performance levels of the workforce and costs
Fosters healthy internal competition with a weekly publicly displayed Transit Performance League. Provides recognition of top teams and individuals and analyses of lowest performing teams and individuals
Boosts employee morale with performance recognition rewards, including celebratory clothing, sponsor gifts, and transportation passes for family members
2. Transparent Operations, Maintenance & Capital Program Reporting
Promotes complete transparency through detailed reports and analyses of operations, maintenance, and construction work and costs
Builds public trust and confidence for mass transit funding approval by providing essential manpower, equipment and costs information for federal, state, and local funding approval
3. Work Performance Accountability and Performance Audits
Defines clear work responsibilities and monitors performance with formal job performance audits
Ensures direct and specific accountability for work results
4. Railroad Equipment Expertise Development & Asset Condition Monitoring
Develops specific expertise in equipment and infrastructure maintenance and construction through dedicated corridor team personnel
Conducts in-depth monitoring and condition assessments of all assets
5. Maximum Work Efficiency and Diverse Work Coordination
Eliminates wasted time, effort, and money due to miscommunications and lack of coordination
Establishes unified objectives, work efforts, and maximum resource utilization
6. Merit-Based Hiring and Promotion
Establishes specific, measurable, and objective job key performance indicators for employment hiring and promotions
Eliminates favoritism in the hiring and promotional culture
7. Enhanced Utilization of Contractors and Consultants
Easily allows for the utilization of private contractors and consultants to provide railroad operations and maintenance activities as well as capital design and construction for competitive cost reduction
Potential to save billions in annual expenditures
8. Strategic Rail Service Maintenance, Repair & Upgrade Shutdowns
Implements systematic annual individual rail corridor service shutdowns, with support from city traffic enforcement Dept. Of Transportation and Police for efficient rail station-to-station bus service during diversions
9. Business Sponsorships, Advertisements & Merchandise Additional Revenue Streams
Creates opportunities for private businesses' brand sponsorships and advertisements matched with specific rail zones and corridors
Generates revenue through corridor brand merchandise sales
10. Streamlined Capital Construction
Eliminates obstacles in capital construction contracts, ensuring faster access to transit facilities and right-of-way
Promotes on-time construction completion, saving billions of dollars of unnecessary costs
11. Manpower Optimization
Estimates a 13.7% reduction in maintenance-of-way personnel, resulting in a projected $244 million per year reduction in payroll costs
12. Safety Rewards Programs
Recommends the implementation of Transit Police Rail Smith Corridor Performance Teams with dedicated patrol officers and supervisors for safety and rewards programs
13. Enhanced Customer Satisfaction
Drives greatly enhanced customer ridership and satisfaction through vastly improved subway service and demonstrated new rail management methods as well as complete open transparency reports that detail all required labor, materials, equipment and other associated costs
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