Toward user-oriented asset management for urban railway systems

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2021

Subject Area

place - urban, place - north america, mode - rail, infrastructure - maintainance

Keywords

Asset management, Sustainable cities, Urban railway, Maintenance planning, Asset-based, Asset -intensive, User-based, User-centered, User-oriented

Abstract

Managing public infrastructure is becoming more complex due to aging assets, increasing demand, and budget limitations. Besides these challenges, best practices recommend putting stakeholders (specifically end-users) in the center of asset management planning for public assets incorporating provided services in the decision-making process to achieve sustainable cities goals. This study improves the classical asset-based approach and proposed a user-oriented platform to maintain urban railway systems. The model is applied to the Toronto regional railway network (Go Transit) in Canada and the Greater Montreal regional railway network (Exo). Results indicate that a proactive approach significantly can save money and bring higher value and performance for the agency. The user-oriented platform was able to push budget allocation toward enhancing provided and potential services for users. The same idea can be extended to other transit systems as well as other infrastructure.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Sustainable Cities and Society

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22106707

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