A railway track – for the users, by the users, of the users

A Young Rail Professionals event with CSIC Research Associate Manu Sasidharan.

Historically, railway track maintenance strategies have been based on engineering judgement taking into account available budgets and operational safety. This has led to the insufficient concern of the socio-economic and environmental costs and benefits of track maintenance. Given the pressure to increase track utilisation, the ageing infrastructure of railway networks, constrained maintenance budgets, the vertical separation of the ownership and operation of railway track infrastructure and rolling stock in many countries, and concerns about the environmental impacts of transport, there is a need to implement sustainable maintenance strategies. To this end, this talk presents an approach to appraise the investment in railway track maintenance.

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