Issues and Challenges in Transportation

van Dongen, Leo A. M.; Frunt, Lex; Rajabalinejad, Mohammad

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Issues and Challenges in Transportation

Leo A. M. van Dongen^8,9,
Lex Frunt⁹ &
Mohammad Rajabalinejad⁸

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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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Railways
Systems integration
Operations

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Maintenance Engineering Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Leo A. M. van Dongen & Mohammad Rajabalinejad
Netherlands Railways, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Leo A. M. van Dongen & Lex Frunt

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Division of Operation, Maintenance and Acoustics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
Prof. Dr. Sarbjeet Singh
Maintenance Engineering Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Alberto Martinetti
Transport Risk Management Centre, Imperial College of London, London, UK
Prof. Dr. Arnab Majumdar
Maintenance Engineering Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. 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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9323-6_1
Published: 21 August 2019
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