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JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CONTEMPORARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CIVILENGINEERING 25, 2014.y., pp. 959-968


RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CONCEPT IN SERBIA WITHIN THE PROCESS OF PLANNED RAILWAY (RE)CONSTRUCTION & MODERNIZATION
 
DOI: 10.14415/konferencijaGFS2014.128
UDC: 625.1:65(497.11)
CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
Author : Jovanović, Stanislav; Božović, Dragan
 
 Summary:
 Railway Infrastructure maintenance costs represent the single largest expenditure within overall Life Cycle Cost of the railway infrastructure. In most cases, however, this fact is overlooked and most attention is being paid exclusively to (re)construction costs, while maintenance aspects are largely neglected. Besides, the fact that the quality of design solution, i.e. quality of designed and applied infrastructure elements is decisively influencing future maintenance costs. Modern railway infrastructure maintenance concept is based on comprehensive databases (DB), information systems (IS) and decision support systems (DSS), and according to many researches and railway practices World-wide this approach can bring significant savings in the total railway maintenance costs over the entire life cycle. This is also the reason why most of the developed railways World-side invested significant amount of funds and effort into creating such infrastructure databases and implementing suitable IS & DSS. During the process of their implementation, as well as all accompanying processes (e.g. data collection and condition-measuring), it was also realized that the most effective implementation is performed for the newly constructed or reconstructed infrastructure, within properly conceived process of creating as-built design. As a large volume of railway infrastructure reconstruction is expected on the Corridor X across Serbia in the next years, this issue is of outmost importance. For this reason, this paper concerns the definition and optimization of the processes of preparation and implementation of a comprehensive Railway Infrastructure Maintenance Management System, on the Serbian railway network, especially adapted to its peculiarities.
 
 Keywords:
 Railway, infrastructure, maintenance, management, databases