== Abstract ==

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Life-cycle cost (LCC) analysis is an assessment technique used to evaluate costs incurred during the life-cycle of<br> a system to help in long term decision making. In railway and road transport infrastructures, costs are subject to<br> numerous uncertainties associated to the operation and maintenance phase. By integrating in the LCC the<br> stochastic nature of failure using Reliability, Maintainability, Availability and Safety (RAMS) analyses,<br> maintenance costs can be more reliably estimated. This paper presents an innovative approach for a combined<br> RAMS&amp;LCC methodology for linear transport infrastructures which has been developed under the H2020<br> project INFRALERT. Results of the application of such methodology in two real use cases are shown, one for<br> rail and another one for road. The use cases show how the approach is implemented in practice.

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== Original document ==

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* [https://zenodo.org/record/1483661 https://zenodo.org/record/1483661] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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* [http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1483660 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1483660],

: [https://zenodo.org/record/1483661 https://zenodo.org/record/1483661] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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* [http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1483661 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1483661],

: [https://zenodo.org/record/1483661 https://zenodo.org/record/1483661] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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DOIS: 10.5281/zenodo.1483661 10.5281/zenodo.1483660

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