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Delayed maintenance modelling considering speed restriction for a railway section

Shang, Hui; Berenguer, Christophe; Andrews, John

Authors

Hui Shang

Christophe Berenguer

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



Abstract

The deterioration of track geometry depends on several factors of which the speed of the train is one. Imposing a speed restriction can slow down the track deterioration and allows a longer survival time before a serious condition is achieved. Preventive maintenance delays can be authorized during the survival time. However, speed restrictions also reduce the system throughput. On the other hand, a longer interval between preventive maintenance activities has a lower maintenance action cost and it also enables grouping the maintenance activities to save set-up costs as well as system down time. If the repair delay is too long, it may cause unacceptable conditions on the track and lead to higher maintenance costs and accidents. Therefore, it is interesting to assess the effect of a speed restriction on the delayed maintenance strategies for a railway track section. We want to solve a maintenance optimization problem to find the optimal tuning of the maintenance delay time and imposition of a speed restriction.
To this aim, a delayed maintenance model is developed, in which track deterioration depends on the train speed and the number of passing trains. The model is used to determine an optimal speed restriction strategy and a preventive repair delay for the optimization of the system benefit and unavailability.
Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) are adopted to model the maintenance and operation of the railway track section. The CPN model describes the gradual track deterioration as a stochastic process. Different speed restriction policies and maintenance delay strategies are modelled and activated by the observed component states. Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to estimate the maintenance cost, the system benefit and the system downtime under different policies. Numerical results show the maintenance decision variable trade-off.

Citation

Shang, H., Berenguer, C., & Andrews, J. (in press). Delayed maintenance modelling considering speed restriction for a railway section. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 231(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X17709200

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 7, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 22, 2017
Deposit Date May 23, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability
Print ISSN 1748-006X
Electronic ISSN 1748-0078
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 231
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X17709200
Keywords Delayed maintenance,Coloured Petri Net, speed restriction, performance assessment, railway asset management
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/867771
Publisher URL http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1748006X17709200

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