Maintenance performance indicators for railway infrastructure management

Railway traffic has increased over the last decade and it is believed to increase further with the movement of transportation from road to rail, due to the increasing energy costs and the demand to reduce emissions. To manage the assets effectively within the business objectives, the effect of maintenance activities must be measured and monitored. Performance indicators are continuously identified and developed to support infrastructure managers in decision making, but they are often ad-hoc and seldom standardised. In this paper, about 130 maintenance performance indicators for railway infrastructures have been mapped and compared with indicators of European standard. The listed indicators form a basis for constructing a maintenance performance measurement system for railway infrastructures.