“The future is digital”: An editorial on the exploitation of digitalisation in infrastructure management and two papers on railway management are now published
Two new papers are published in the themed issue on defining, quantifying, measuring and modelling infrastructure service of the journal of Infrastructure Asset Management, featuring an editorial written by Professor Bryan Adey. The editorial explains that the exploitation of digitalisation in infrastructure management requires first to clarify what service is provided when the infrastructure is operated, it deteriorates, or it is maintained.
The two papers focus on the rail service, and they are written by Natalia Papathanasiou, Professor Bryan Adey and Marcel Burkhalter. The first paper is titled “external page Defining and quantifying railway service to plan infrastructure interventions Infrastructure”. It explains how rail service can be defined in a way that enables railway managers to directly quantify all the effects on the stakeholders when railway assets deteriorate or are maintained. The second paper is titled “external page Usefulness of quantifying effects on rail service when comparing intervention strategies”. It demonstrates how this direct quantification of the effects on rail service provides a systematic and data-driven way to plan interventions on railway assets. This leads to more informative and transparent decision making.
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