IMPROVING THE RESPONSE TIME FOR THE CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE: A CASE STUDY OF THE WESTERN CAPE PASSENGER RAIL NETWORK

Response time for repairing rail infrastructure failures remains a challenge in the South African rail industry. The 'mean time to return' metric consists of mean time to respond and mean time to repair. This article investigates the mean time to respond for signalling infrastructure at th...

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Published in:South African journal of industrial engineering 2019-05, Vol.30 (1), p.235-247
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corrective maintenance
Decision making
Downtime
Emergency communications systems
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Handbooks
Infrastructure
Maintenance
Maintenance management
Passenger trains
Passengers
Preventive maintenance
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Rail transportation
Reliability engineering
Response time
Teams
Traffic congestion
Trains
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Engineering, Industrial
Failure
Handbooks
Infrastructure
Maintenance
Maintenance management
Passenger trains
Passengers
Preventive maintenance
rail
Rail transportation
Reliability engineering
Response time
Teams
Traffic congestion
Trains
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