RAMS and LCC in Rail Track Maintenance

Abstract

Administration (Banverket). First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Uday Kumar for his invaluable guidance, stimulating suggestions and encouragement during the research. I would like to thank Ulla Espling and Arne Nissen for their valuable suggestions and sharing their knowledge in railway. I am particularly grateful to Dr. Peter Söderholm, Dr. Aditya Parida and Dr. Behzad Ghodrati for their valuable comments and fruitful suggestions on the thesis. I wish to express my sincere thanks to Banverket for providing the data for analysis and JVTC for all the support required in completing the thesis. I am also grateful to all my colleagues at the Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, especially to Saurabh Kumar, Javad