INDOT initiated a study to investigate Performance Based Contracting of maintenance operations. One of the main impetus … miles to the current network. With this addition and coupled with a trend of reduction in maintenance personnel, INDOT is … planning how maintenance will be performed. One viable option is the use of performance based contracting (PBC). This study has …

life of track components and increases in track maintenance costs. This paper provides a state-of-the-art review of track … degradation modeling, as well as an overview of track maintenance decision support systems currently in use in North America and … Europe. The essential elements of a maintenance optimisation model currently under development are also highlighted. …

estimate and predict product failures, thereby helping to improve maintenance operations. This paper describes a study in which … system maintenance and EOL processes were combined and closed-loop supply chain systems were constructed to analyze the …, maintenance cost, inspection cost, sales revenues, and profitability, were determined and a design of experiments study was …

continuation (maintenance) of organic farming, implemented in all but one of the EU Member States. Comprehensive data has been …

Performance-based maintenance contracts differ significantly from material and method-based contracts that have been … road services and conditions. Payments for the maintenance of road are explicitly linked to the contractor successfully …, both for predicting pavement deterioration when there is no maintenance, and for predicting pavement improvement when …

Performance-based contracting (PBC) for roadway maintenance is relatively new among various alternative contracting … the contracting community. Because performance-based maintenance contracts extend over multiple years (typically 5-7 years …

The paper proposes a framework of various tasks involved in the software maintenance process. The work reported in this … paper disassembles the complex process of software maintenance into tasks as to aid in the allocation of resources …, acquisition of appropriate tools, and distributing responsibilities of the software maintenance process. The associated toolsets …