An Approach to Calculate Overall Efficiency of Rolling Stock for an Urban Rail Transit System
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2012
Subject Area
infrastructure - rolling stock, mode - rail, place - europe
Keywords
rail, rollingstock, efficiency, limited public funds, overall equipment efficiency. Munich
Abstract
Inefficiency of urban rail transit systems (URTS) results in a lower standard of service than required and has negative economic impacts. Many efforts have been undertaken to calculate the efficiency of URTS or their subunits. Overall equipment efficiency (OEE) as a measure of efficiency is a simple, flexible, and efficient formula. The OEE measure ensures that equipment is available and fully capable of producing quality goods/services for the maximum time of operation and is being used in a proper way. This paper discusses the idea of the OEE from the field of production and how it can be applied to a URTS. Overall efficiency of rolling stock (RS) is a major influencing factor on the efficiency of URTS. Therefore, the three fundamental parameters of OEE—availability, performance, and service quality—are defined for the RS of a URTS, and a method for their calculation is presented. The usefulness of OEE for URTS is investigated.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by NCTR, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Mahboob, Q., Stoiber, T., Gottstein, S., & Tsakarestos, A. (2012). An Approach to Calculate Overall Efficiency of Rolling Stock for an Urban Rail Transit System. Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 15, (1), pp. 19-32.
