IMPROVING THE RESPONSE TIME FOR THE CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE: A CASE STUDY OF THE WESTERN CAPE PASSENGER RAIL NETWORK

IMPROVING THE RESPONSE TIME FOR THE CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE: A CASE STUDY OF THE WESTERN CAPE PASSENGER RAIL NETWORK

Response time for repairing rail infrastructure failures remains a challenge in the South African rail industry. The ‘mean time to return’ metric consists of mean time to respond and mean time to repair. This article investigates the mean time to respond for signalling infrastructure at the Passenge...

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Main Authors: Du Toit, Anerosa, Jooste, Johannes Lodewyk, Conradie, Pieter Daniël Francois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stellenbosch University 2019-05-01
Series:South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
Subjects:
response time
corrective maintenance
rail
Online Access:http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1909

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