Course details

Railway Vehicles Maintenance

Department of Railway Transport

Semester: Winter/Summer
ECTS:5
Study level: BSc/MSc
Course code: 36078
Available in 2022/23: Yes

Course description:

Course objectives:

• Acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary for planning, organizing and control of rolling stock maintenance process
• Selection of an optimal maintenance model by types of vehicles and maintenance workshops
• Determining the shape of the rolling stock structure considering potential integral logistic support of the system

At the end of the course students should be able to:

1. Define and describe certain types of rolling stock maintenance processes
2. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of different rolling stock maintenance technologies by appliance of Multi-criteria decision analysis
3. Calculate and select the optimal maintenance model for different type of rail vehicles
4. Calculate maintaining capacities
5. Know how to apply an appropriate model of optimal railway vehicle maintenance process
6. Make conclusions based on model results and select optimal solutions

Course teachers:
Mladen Nikšić
Denis Šipuš
Matea Mikulčić

Syllabus (pdf)