Development of a Life Cycle Cost Methodology for Railways Infrastructure, Provision and Use

The environment created by changing railway policy has an impact on the actual position of infrastructure management. Therefore, a systematic approach is needed for communication with the infrastructure manager and the rest of the ‘actors’ for guaranteeing pre-set levels of performance. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) can contribute to this. Review on the existing LCC practices in railways infrastructure management, proves that Life Cycle Cost applications by the management of the infrastructure is still in an early stages of development. This paper presents a harmonized LCC methodology for Railways Infrastructure Management, in terms of investment, maintenance and renewal costs, vehicle-infrastructure interaction, delay and scarcity costs, accident and environmental costs. This methodology is expected to assist the Infrastructure Managers in their duties, which is to develop a costing mechanism for the use of the infrastructure, so that they will be able to produce viable charging schemes.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Tsamboulas, Dimitrios A
  • Kopsacheili, Angeliki
• Conference:
  • 10th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Istanbul , Turkey
  • Date: 2004-7-4 to 2004-7-8
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: 10th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Capital investments; Development; Infrastructure; Investments; Life cycle analysis; Methodology; Railroad traffic; Railroad transportation; Railroad travel; Railroads
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084913
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:14AM