Optimizing Long-Term Planning of Railway Maintenance

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Abstract

Railway maintenance is currently planned according to a fixed schedule, mostly of one year. This is usually not optimal when considering the cost of maintenance, of possessions and of failure. However, an approach that minimizes the sum of these costs was not yet available. This paper presents a statistical analysis method and an optimization problem that aims to solve this problem. It is applied to fictitious problems and a realistic test case.

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