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Operations Research Models for Scheduling Railway Infrastructure Maintenance
- Publication date
- 4 June 2009
- Publisher
- In the last decades, maintenance of technical systems has become increasingly impor-
tant in many industries. Such systems are transport systems (rail, bus, airplane), civil
engineering systems (roads, buildings, bridges), health care (hospitals), communication
systems, manufacturing plants, etc. Failures of these systems may cause expensive pro-
duction losses and can have a negative e®ect on the environment and safety. For example,
a train accident, crash of an airplane, collapse of a building, computer breakdown in an
hospital, may cause large societal costs. Substantial environmental damage may result
from a failure in