WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control
Print ISSN: 1991-8763, E-ISSN: 2224-2856
Volume 16, 2021
An Integrated Model for Dimensioning the Reserve Fleet based on the Maintenance Policy
Authors: , , ,
Abstract: Usually, the Reserve Fleet, or Spare Fleet, of passenger urban buses, is based on indicators used in some
international relevant companies and extrapolated for many others, almost as a dogma. However, it must be taken
into consideration pragmatic variables intrinsic to the buses namely their maintenance and in a more pragmatic
approach, indexing their availability and by consequence the reserve fleet indexed to the maintenance policy used
in each company.
The paper discusses these subjects and presents a global model that integrates the maintenance planning policy,
based on a condition monitoring model, maintenance Key Maintenance Indicators (KPI), and an economic life
cycle model.
The paper presents some results based both in theoretical considerations and also in real data from an urban fleet
of a European Country.
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Pages: 43-65
DOI: 10.37394/23203.2021.16.3