Problem statement

Proper management of infrastructure requires forecasting the condition of infrastructure assets and the level of funding required to ensure that they provide an adequate level of service, with due consideration of the associated uncertainties. In this project, you will make these estimates for the railway infrastructure network of the SZU. You will estimate how the condition of the existing network will change over the next 50 years, propose possible infrastructure interventions to maintain an adequate level of service, and estimate the cost of these interventions. In this project you will learn to:

Organize the available data of an infrastructure network,
Evaluate the impact of individual objects on the overall level of service,
Develop models for the condition of individual objects, as well as how they change over time, and
Develop and evaluate interventions for infrastructure networks considering data uncertainty.

Here we upload the slides related to each weekly meeting according to the Figure 1.

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    title Thesis timeline
    dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD
    section Initialisation
    Kick-off meeting : milestone, a1, 2024-02-26, 1d
    
    section Work in progress
    Determine objective functions and classify assets :done a1, 2024-03-05,5d
    Define condition classes and model deterioration : 6d
    Determine possible interventions & strategies : 12d
    Estimate cost of interventions and their impacts : 12d
    Interim presentation :crit, 2024-04-08, 1d
    Determine optimal interventioin strategy : 14d
    Develop intervention program : 21d
    Review results and any assumptions : 14d
    Final presentation :crit, 2024-05-27, 1d
    
    section Finalisation
    Document work incl. meeting minutes, final report, etc. :active a2,  2024-03-04, 12w
    Material submission : milestone, 2024-05-31, 1d

Figure 1: The timeline for accomplishing the thesis.

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