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Issues and Challenges in Transportation

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Dynamics of society directly influence the demands for transportation. This paper elaborates this subject for the rail industry in the Netherlands. The paper explains how the market needs to continuously change the rail industry in the Netherlands and describes the current challenges for delivering world-class services for the rail operation.

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  1. Maintenance Engineering Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Leo A. M. van Dongen & Mohammad Rajabalinejad

  2. Netherlands Railways, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Leo A. M. van Dongen & Lex Frunt

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Correspondence to Leo A. M. van Dongen .

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  1. Division of Operation, Maintenance and Acoustics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Sarbjeet Singh

  2. Maintenance Engineering Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Alberto Martinetti

  3. Transport Risk Management Centre, Imperial College of London, London, UK

    Arnab Majumdar

  4. Maintenance Engineering Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Leo A. M. van Dongen

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van Dongen, L.A.M., Frunt, L., Rajabalinejad, M. (2019). Issues and Challenges in Transportation. In: Singh, S., Martinetti, A., Majumdar, A., Dongen, L. (eds) Transportation Systems. Asset Analytics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9323-6_1

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