Estimating the relative cost of track damage mechanisms : Combining economic and engineering approaches
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 84
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1177/0954409717698850
- Title of journal
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
- Article number
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- First page
- 620
- Volume
- 231
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 0954-4097
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper reports on the application of new methods to the tricky problem of allocating the costs of damage to different railway vehicles. It is a collaboration between the two world leading Institutes: ITS at Leeds and IRR at Huddersfield. For the first time engineering and economics models have been brought together and the findings validated against data provided from the railway. The work has been taken forward in in the EU 'Run2Rail' project [http://www.run2rail.eu/]. In Run2Rail the work was used to improve the design and operation of railways and has led to a 20% reduction in maintenance Costs.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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