Maintenance performance indicators (MPIs) for benchmarking the railway infrastructure

Benchmarking

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-258

  Åhrén, Thomas ^a   Parida, Aditya ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Costs; Maintenance; Performance management; Railways; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349533038     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770910948240     Document Type: Article

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