Different policies exist to maintain a fleet of railway vehicles or machineries in general, e.g. cyclic, event driven, proactive, condition based. Each policy offers a different level of performances, and it requires a different amount of data for its actuation. As a general rule, the higher the diagnostic information, the more effective are the maintenance actions. Effectiveness of maintenance...

Motivated by high oil prices, several large fleet companies initiated future plans to hybridize their fleets to establish immunity for their optimized business models against severe oil price fluctuations, and adhere to increasing awareness of environmentally-friendly solutions. The hybridization projects increased maintenance costs especially for highly costly and degradable components such as...

Many studies on policy implementation have emphasized the difficulties of putting policies into practice. The paper presents several ways in which Dutch non-profit housing providers incorporate their energy saving policies in their ‘regular’ housing management regarding the existing stock, such as planned preventive maintenance, renovations and other physical improvements. Several housing assoc...

One important issue in using the industrial and manufacturing facilities is to consider their impacts on the environment. Many of these equipment have negative effects on the environment when operated for sometimes. In this research the probabilistic logistic times and the destructive effects for maintenance are studied and appropriate model is suggested and evaluated. The aim of the proposed m...