Optimizing the maintenance policy for light rail rolling stock at HTM

This thesis describes a method to find the best maintenance policy for a light rail rolling stock system based on reliability, availability, and maintenance cost. The objective of this maintenance policy is to maintain a minimum required level of system reliability at minimum maintenance cost and maximum availability. The maintenance policy...

Optimizing preventive maintenance policy: A data-driven application for a light rail braking system

This article presents a case study determining the optimal preventive maintenance policy for a light rail rolling stock system in terms of reliability, availability, and maintenance costs. The maintenance policy defines one of the three predefined preventive maintenance actions at fixed time-based intervals for each of the subsystems of the...