The Blue Island Vermont Street Station is a hub of interagency transfer activity between Metra, Pace, and CTA. Transit service in this station area is provided by four Pace bus routes (348, 349, 359, and 385) and three Metra lines or branches (Metra Electric Blue Island Branch, Rock Island District Beverly Branch, and Rock Island district Main Line). Improvements to the Blue Island, Vermont Street Interagency Transfer Station would include additional interagency signage at multiple locations, including both Metra stations. Funding: 2010 ICE: $560,000 2012 ICE: $1,440,000

This project is for the purchase of software that uses train schedules to determine the minimum amount of crews members needed to operate service. This software will be used with the new electronic crew calling system that helps Metra better comply with Passenger Hours of Service (PHOS) regulation for hours of service reporting requirements. Funding: 2016 ICE: $500,000

This project will support the CTA's effort to install Digital Customer Information Displays and non-digital customer focused information throughout the system. Digital displays provide real time bus tracker and/or train tracker information as appropriate, system status updates and CTA customer alerts. These are interspersed with paid advertisements, time and weather information. The paid advertisements support the operation of the displays and provide a source of revenue to CTA. Funding: 2010 ICE: $1,080,000 2012 ICE: $920,000

This project would support the placement of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) on all cab control coaches and even-numbered highliner cars of the Metra fleet in addition to major work facilities and Metra police vehicles. Funding: 2008 ICE - $536,100 2011 ICE - $103,700

This project will replace Metra's train tracking, passenger information, and passenger counting systems with a new, unified system. The new systems will maintain the necessary current functions of the existing separate systems while potentially adding video surveillance and customer information displays.