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Life-Cycle Cost Estimation for High-Speed Vehicles: from the engineers’ to the airline’s perspective
This paper aims at upgrading the holistic Cost Estimation methodology for High-Speed
Vehicles already developed by Politecnico di Torino and the European Space Agency (ESA)
to encompass different stakeholders’ perspectives. In details, the presented methodology
combines International Air Transport Association (IATA) best practices with a detailed Life-
Cycle Cost (LCC) assessment, which includes the evaluation of Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation (RDTE) Costs, Production costs and of Direct and Indirect Operating Costs
(DOC and IOC). The integrated approach allows to further extend the capabilities of the inhouse
developed HyCost tool to support all the actors of the product value-chain (including
engineers, manufacturers, airlines and customers) in assessing the economic sustainability of
a newly under-development high-speed vehicle. However, considering the need of providing
all these cost analyses perspectives since the early design stages, the derived Cost Estimation
Relationships are mainly derived on statistical bases. To cope with the uncertainties that affect
the initial statistical population and consequently, the CERs, this paper presents each cost
item together with the estimation of related prediction intervals. Finally, results of the
application of the upgraded cost estimation methodology and of the upgraded tool to the
LAPCAT MR2.4 high-speed civil transport are reported and discussed