Abstract This article gives a survey on some important maintenance policies involving minimal repairs and replacements …

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 …

Fault detection and isolation (FDI) and design of optimal maintenance policies have been traditionally studied … objective of this paper is to provide a unified approach where maintenance decisions are driven by real-time FDI signals. Such … and maintenance (O&M). Our approach relies on the following steps. First, the information about the assets, their likely …

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 …

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. …

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 …