New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 85 - CONTRACTING OUT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 16:85-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Affiliate" means any individual, company, proprietorship,
				  corporation, agency, trust, or partnership where, by reason of the relationship
				  of such entity with the carrier (whether by reason of the method of, or
				  circumstances surrounding, organization or operation, or whether established
				  through common directors, officers, stakeholders, a voting trust or trusts, a
				  holding or investment company or companies, family relationships, or any other
				  direct or indirect means) there is a reason to believe that the affairs of the
				  carrier may be managed in the interest of such individual, company,
				  proprietorship, corporation, agency, trust, or partnership.
"Board" means the Board of Directors of NJ TRANSIT.
"Carrier" or "private carrier" means any person, firm,
				  corporation, or any type of entity that proposes to provide regular route bus
				  service for NJ TRANSIT.
"Direct costs" also known as "variable costs," means expenses
				  that are directly attributable to the operation of the service and vary with
				  the level of service provided, which, by way of example, include bus operator
				  and mechanics' wages, tolls, fees, fuel, and parts.
"Executive Director" means the Executive Director of NJ
				  TRANSIT, or his or her designee.
"Fixed costs" means expenses that tend to remain constant in
				  amount regardless of variations in volume of activity within a relevant range
				  of service level, which, by way of example, include garage leases and rentals
				  and real estate taxes.
"Marginal cost" means the incremental cost, also known as
				  avoidable cost, and not the fully allocated cost, as dictated by concepts of
				  financial cost accounting and as deemed appropriate to mass transit activities
				  by NJ TRANSIT.
"Marginal or avoidable cost analysis" means an evaluation of
				  the cost of operating a service or the savings to be obtained from not
				  operating a service utilizing direct costs. In addition, semi-variable costs
				  may be utilized in the cost analysis but only if the semi-variable costs result
				  in additional costs or in cost savings. If no additional costs or savings are
				  to be incurred in the "semi-variable cost" category, such costs should not be
				  included in the analysis.
"New service" and "major restructuring" of service means
				  regular route bus service, that:
1. Has not been operated by any bus carrier (public or
				  private) before;
2. Links or connects an origin/destination pair that has not
				  been linked by regular route bus service before;
3. Links an origin/destination pair in a route pattern that
				  has not existed before or is substantially different in streets, patterns, or
				  bus stops, in response to significant changes in passenger trip generators and
				  anticipated market demand;
4. Results from the reinstitution, in whole or in part, or in
				  any modified manner, of any previously operated and discontinued service in
				  response to significant changes in passenger trip generators and anticipated
				  market demand;
5. Has been abandoned by a private carrier and which NJ
				  TRANSIT has determined should continue, without interruption, either partially
				  or completely, in the interest of public need; or
6. Results from the major restructuring of multiple NJ
				  TRANSIT existing bus routes, meaning the restructuring of bus service in a
				  specific contiguous area served by those routes, so as to materially and
				  substantially reduce from, add to, or alter the levels of service of those
				  combined routes.
"NJ TRANSIT" means the New Jersey Transit Corporation.
"NJ TRANSIT operating subsidiary" means any of the three
				  wholly owned bus operating subsidiaries of NJ TRANSIT: NJ TRANSIT Bus
				  Operations, Inc., NJ TRANSIT Mercer, Inc., and NJ TRANSIT Morris, Inc.
"Regular route bus services" means the operation of any motor
				  bus or motor buses on streets, public highways, or other facilities, over a
				  fixed route and between fixed termini on a regular schedule for the purpose of
				  carrying passengers for hire, in this State or between points in this State and
				  points in other states. For purposes of this chapter, "regular route bus
				  service" also refers to bus routes that NJ TRANSIT is authorized by law to
				  possess or that NJ TRANSIT actually operates, or could operate, pursuant to
				  law.
"Semi-variable costs" means that portion of expenses that
				  change in total in the same direction as the changes in volume but not
				  proportionately thereto which by way of example include garage costs,
				  management and supervisory costs, finance and data processing costs, and labor
				  relations/personnel costs.