Value Based Decision Making for Rail: A System of Systems Approach.
摘要
Modern railways face a formidable challenge of transitioning from conventional technologies and established practices to becoming a vital component of a transport infrastructure of the future which places the railway as the backbone an environmentally sustainable multimodal transport ecosystem. This transformation necessitates a fundamental shift in the operational paradigm of railways, a shift that is already well underway. However, many railway organisations continue to make decisions based on traditional views of asset disciplines such as track and rolling stock, as well as specific work types like maintenance and renewals. A system-of-systems approach is proposed that devolves decisions as far as possible while providing the necessary degree of integration to optimise the performance of the whole railway system.