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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) recently completed a “Capital Needs Inventory” report, which details more than $11 billion worth of capital improvements the agency needs to complete during the next 10 years to maintain system safety and reliability.

The report identifies necessary “performance” projects costing $7.6 billion and “customer/demand” projects costing $3.8 billion. It also addresses physical assets, including vehicles, facilities, operating systems, information technology, track and maintenance equipment.

Recommended performance projects call for rehabilitating rail sections that are more than 30 years old, replacing older rail cars and buses, and upgrading information technology. Customer/demand projects include fleet expansions and motive power upgrades so WMATA could use eight-car trains on all rail lines, a new police training facility and the installation of platform edge protection at all Metrorail stations.