A Management System for the Maintenance of Waterway Infrastructures
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Katrin Kuehni
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Sustainable Infrastructure - Environment Friendly, Safe and Resource Efficient, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-11 September 2009 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Bangkok 2009 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 30-37 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 6 | ||||
| Year: | 2009 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137809796078504 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The German Waterways Network, including the associated infrastructure facilities such as locks, weirs, culverts, canal bridges and lighthouses, has an assets value of around 40 billion €. To economically maintain such a large infrastructure, an IT based e-maintenance system (EMS) has been implemented. Working with the data obtained from regular inspections and with various mathematical models, the system supplies management with important decision making information. The resulting benefits are:
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| Keywords: |
inspection mathematical models Markov chains maintenance system asset Database survival analysis
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