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Maintenance Decision Making Process – A Case Study of Passenger Transportation Company

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In the presented paper, the authors’ research work is focused on the analysis of maintenance decision making process performance with taking into account necessary operational data availability. Thus, in the Introduction section, the transportation systems maintenance issues are described. Later, there is a comprehensive literature overview in the analysed research area provided. This gives the possibility to present the decision making process in the transportation systems’ maintenance management area. Later, in the next Section, the case study for maintenance management processes performance in chosen passenger transportation company is investigated. Following this, the computer systems used for operational data gathering are characterised, and the data availability is investigated.

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Nowakowski, T., Tubis, A., Werbińska-Wojciechowska, S. (2015). Maintenance Decision Making Process – A Case Study of Passenger Transportation Company. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Theory and Engineering of Complex Systems and Dependability. DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 365. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19216-1_29

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