Objective
The objective of the project is to develop a Life Cycle Cost (LCC) approach to assess the benefits and the most favourable method of introducing harmonised rules which ensure economic and safe maintenance of rolling stock outside the home network. In order to achieve this the following actions are required:
1) The provision of a consistent and comprehensive definition of all terminology used in railway vehicle life cycle cost calculations.
2) The extension of the scope of current Life Cycle Costs procedures, to make them useful for strategic decisions as well as monitoring contract performance. This requires that all the factors which influence LCC are included. Amongst the factors to be included will be specification, design, production, reliability, maintenance, interaction with track, current collection and disposal.
3) The determination of which financial analysis techniques are appropriately applied to Life Cycle Cost calculations.
4) To identify strategies for the maintenance, reliability and availability of rolling stock when operating outside the domestic network which minimise the cost of interoperability.
It is expected that the CRMA project will provide the following:
1) A common understanding of Life Cycle Costing applied to rolling stock operation which is independent of the calculation model. This includes: (i) a consistent and acceptable set of terminology and (ii) a definition of all the elements which should be considered to form a complete understanding of Life Cycle Costs.
2) A strategy for minimising the operational costs for operating away form the home network whilst maintaining high level of reliability and availability.
3) Support for the harmonisation of maintenance and reliability.
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3511MK Utrecht
Netherlands