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This paper describes two complementary studies concerning the maintenance and replacement of heavy haul railway track. Minimum cost policies are derived using decision networks in one case and a group replacement model in the other. The results indicate relatively large cost savings on current practice.
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Lamson et al. (1983) studied this question.
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