A holistic approach to railway infrastructure asset management

Rama, Dovile and Andrews, John D. (2015) A holistic approach to railway infrastructure asset management. International Journal of Performability Engineering, 11 (2). pp. 107-120. ISSN 0973-1318

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Abstract

In the railway industry asset management decisions are focused on the maintenance, enhancement and renewal of assets in order to ensure a required level of dependability and improvement in services at the lowest whole life costs. To achieve these objectives system lifecycle models, rather than individual asset models,= offer a greater advantage. The paper presents a modelling approach developed for constructing multi asset system models to support well-informed railway infrastructure asset management decisions. The models are built using the Petri Net formalism and are analysed by a means of Monte Carlo simulations. A specific example of the railway superstructure model is presented. Its simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the system-wide model against individual asset models in terms of its accuracy in predicting the superstructure (system) performance and information available to support asset management decisions. Furthermore, by using the multi-asset system model interdependencies among maintenance regimes of different assets and different parts of the infrastructure can be modelled.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/746459
Keywords: Railway infrastructure, asset management, system-wide models, Petri Nets
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2016 14:25
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:03
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/39412

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