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Development of an extended RAMS framework for railway networks

Litherland, Jack; Calvert, Gareth; Andrews, John; Kirwan, Andy

Authors

Jack Litherland

Gareth Calvert

JOHN ANDREWS john.andrews@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Infrastructure Asset Management

Andy Kirwan



Contributors

Michael Beer
Editor

Enrico Zio
Editor

Abstract

Railway asset managers have finite resources which requires them to make strategic decisions on where, when and how the available budget will be spent on the railway, while ensuring safety limits are maintained and a high level of performance is delivered for customers. The purpose of this research is to develop a suitable framework, which can be used by railway asset managers, to quantify asset performance in a way that enables comparisons between different parts of the railway and enables the asset manager to make key decisions on how the railway can be improved. A frequently used assessment tool is RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) analysis. In recent years RAMS analysis has been extended to include additional parameters such as: security, health, environment, economics and politics (SHEeP). This research proposes an extended RAMS framework, which considers 12 parameters in a four level hierarchy, specifically for use on railway networks by railway asset managers.

Citation

Litherland, J., Calvert, G., Andrews, J., & Kirwan, A. (2019). Development of an extended RAMS framework for railway networks. In M. Beer, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), 3489-3497. https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_+0124-cd

Conference Name 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019)
Start Date Sep 22, 2019
End Date Sep 26, 2019
Acceptance Date Apr 18, 2019
Publication Date Sep 23, 2019
Deposit Date Jun 21, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Pages 3489-3497
Book Title Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019)
ISBN 9789811127243
DOI https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_+0124-cd
Keywords Asset management, Performance, Railways, RAMS
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2216393
Publisher URL http://itekcmsonline.com/rps2prod/esrel2019/e-proceedings/html/0124.xml
Related Public URLs https://esrel2019.org/#/

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