A Decision Support Approach for Condition-Based Maintenance of Rails Based on Big Data Analysis

Reference

A. Jamshidi, S. Hajizadeh, Z. Su, M. Naeimi, A. Núñez, R. Dollevoet, B. De Schutter, and Z. Li, "A Decision Support Approach for Condition-Based Maintenance of Rails Based on Big Data Analysis," Transportation Research Part C, vol. 95, pp. 185-206, Oct. 2018.

Abstract

In this paper, a decision support approach is proposed for condition-based maintenance of rails relying on expert-based systems. The methodology takes into account both the actual conditions of the rails (using axle box acceleration measurements and rail video images) and the prior knowledge of the railway track. The approach provides an integrated estimation of the rail health conditions to support the maintenance decisions for a given time period. An expert-based system is defined to analyze interdependency between the prior knowledge of the track (defined by influential factors) and the surface defect measurements over the rail. When the rail health conditions is computed, the different track segments are priorities, in order to facilitate grinding planning of those segments of rail that are prone to critical conditions. In this paper, real-life rail conditions measurements from the track Amersfoort-Weert in the Dutch railway network are used to show the benefits of the proposed methodology. The results support infrastructure managers to analyze the problems in their rail infrastructure and to efficiently perform a condition-based maintenance decision making.

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Bibtex entry

@article{JamHaj:18-016,
author={A. Jamshidi and S. Hajizadeh and Z. Su and M. Naeimi and A. N{\'{u}}{\~{n}}ez and R. Dollevoet and B. {D}e Schutter and Z. Li},
title={A Decision Support Approach for Condition-Based Maintenance of Rails Based on Big Data Analysis},
journal={Transportation Research Part C},
volume={95},
pages={185--206},
month=oct,
year={2018},
doi={10.1016/j.trc.2018.07.007}
}

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