DETERMINING WHAT TO PAY FOR: A TOOL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE PRICE/PERFORMANCE RATIO OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

BEPALEN WAARVOOR TE BETALEN: EEN INSTRUMENT VOOR DE ANALYSE VAN DE PRIJS/PRESTATIEVERHOUDING VAN RAILINFRABEHEER

The railway infrastructure is an important factor for the costs and performance of rail transport. The performance of the infrastructure (for example, safety, availability and reliability) is an important aspect of design and maintenance decisionmaking, since the assets have a long life span and design choices are hard to change. In the restructured railway setting the infrastructure manager faces increasing performance requirements. Since design and maintenance still are mainly processes driven by technical procedures, a set of tools to justify design and maintenance choices on a level of 'functional specifications' (life cycle costs, availability and reliability) is missing. In this paper, a decision support system (DSS) is described which can serve as a first step towards such a set of tools. The DSS combines maintenance data with data from transport operations and financial data in order to estimate the system performance. The DSS use during the consultation phase of the HSL-Zuid Infrastructure Provider contract tender showed the lack of reliable maintenance data. In developing performance contracts this should be well considered. The DSS can provide a framework for selecting the important maintenance conditions, which should be part of such a risk allocation. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E206312.

• Corporate Authors:

  Colloguium Vervoersplanologisch Speurwerk

  P.O. Box 45
  Delft,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Zoeteman, A
• Conference:
  • 27STE COLLOQUIUM VERVOERSPLANOLOGISCH SPEURWERK 2000: WIE BETAALT BEPAALT!: BUNDELING VAN BIJDRAGEN AAN HET COLLOQUIUM GEHOUDEN TE AMSTERDAM, 30 NOVEMBER EN 1 DECEMBER 2000. DEEL 2
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 753-71

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Conferences; Contracts; Costs; Data banks; Decision making; Design; Financing; Life cycle analysis; Maintenance; Performance; Planning; Railroad tracks; Tenders; Transportation operations
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 137: Bid; 8525: Conference; 146: Contract; 224: Cost; 8614: Database; 2248: Decision process; 9011: Design (overall design); 5910: Durability; 244: Financing; 5950: Life cycle; 3847: Maintenance; 8078: Netherlands; 1144: Operations (transp network); 143: Planning; 1062: Railway track; 137: Tender
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Finance; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00920535
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 6 2002 12:00AM