Title :
Optimizing the performance of railway systems: life cycle costing for rail infrastructure managers
Author_Institution :
Sect. of Road & Railway Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper reflects upon the development and application of a (prototype) decision support system for assessing the cost-effectiveness of design and maintenance solutions in the European railways. The usability of this (prototype) system is demonstrated, after which directions for further research and applications are discussed.
Keywords :
decision support systems; life cycle costing; optimisation; railway engineering; structural engineering computing; European railways; decision support system; life cycle costing; rail infrastructure managers; railway maintenance; railway systems; Costing; Costs; Databases; Decision support systems; Degradation; Rail transportation; Research and development management; Technology management; Telecommunication traffic; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8566-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401183
