CONTAINING VEHICLE MAINTENANCE COSTS

The article describes ways in which the National Bus Company has been able to increase efficiency and economy in vehicle maintenance through the use of computers. With the aim of reducing the public service vehicle maintenance costs of over 100 million pounds sterling annually, the NBC has introduced vehicle maintenance costing (VMC). This computer-based system provides information concerning actual costs incurred during the service life of vehicles. The system is able to identify an individual vehicle and allows monitoring of maintenance costs and particular problem areas. Thus the costing system can provide a useful aid in vehicle development as well as routine maintenace procedures. (TRRL)

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• Corporate Authors:

  City Press Limited

  Fairfax House
  Colchester, Essex CO1 1RJ,   England 
• Publication Date: 1981-7-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 46-47
• Serial:
  • Transport: Research Journal of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
  • ISSN: 1648-4142
  • EISSN: 1648-3480

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Costs; Digital computers; Economic benefits; Economic efficiency; Economic factors; Economics; Emergency vehicles; Information processing; Inspection; Motor vehicles; Planning; Public transit; Service life; Transportation; Vehicle maintenance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Public service vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 224: Cost; 8673: Digital computer; 237: Economic efficiency; 263: Economics of transport; 5911: Efficiency; 143: Planning; 744: Public transport; 1575: Vehicle inspection
• Subject Areas: Economics; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345923
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 28 1982 12:00AM