The aim of this study has been to determine the optimal maintenance limits for one of the main railway lines in Iran in such a way that the total maintenance costs are minimized. For this purpose, a cost model has been developed by considering costs related to preventive maintenance activities, corrective maintenance activities, inspection, and a penalty costs associated with exceeding corrective maintenance limit. Standard deviation of longitudinal level was used to measure the quality of track geometry. In order to reduce the level of uncertainty in the maintenance model, K-means clustering algorithm was used to classify track sections with most similarity. Then, a linear function was used for each cluster to model the degradation of track sections. Monte Carlo technique was used to simulate track geometry behavior and determine the optimal maintenance limit which minimizes the total maintenance costs. The results of this paper show that setting an optimal limit can affect total annual maintenance cost about 27 to 57 percent.


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    Title :

    Optimal track geometry maintenance limits using machine learning: A case study


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2021-08-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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