Implementation of performance based maintenance contracting in railway industries

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 231-240

  Famurewa, Stephen M ^a   Asplund, Matthias ^a   Galar, Diego ^a   Kumar, Uday ^a,b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Luleå Railway Research Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Outcome indicators; Outsourcing; Performance based railway infrastructure maintenance; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS); OUTSOURCING; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS;

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS; MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENTS; MAINTENANCE OUTSOURCING; PERFORMANCE BASED MAINTENANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEMS; RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84883511538     PISSN: 09756809     EISSN: 09764348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13198-013-0167-4     Document Type: Article

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