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MODERN RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT S JOVANOVIC Railway Engineering Group, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Stevinweg 1, NL-2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail: S.Jovanovic@citg.TUDelft.nl ABSTRACT Complexity of today’s railway sector imposes high and often conflicting demands for Rail Infrastructure Managers; the shear vastness of Railway Networks requires advanced tools and methods to aid humans in managing them efficiently. This problem necessitated in the recent years the introduction and application of an Asset Management System (AMS) for Railway Infrastructure (RI). Putting together the databases and tools for such an AMS is the major challenge of today’s railways. The Paper describes the modern concept of Railway Infrastructure Asset Management System as well as its main sub-systems and the activities they are supposed to handle: Infrastructure Inventorying • Defining RI objects • Defining relevant RI objects’ inventory information (attributes) • Surveying RI objects’ location • Collecting, compiling and maintaining the inventory of all objects constituting RI Infrastructure Condition Monitoring • Defining RI objects needing condition monitoring • Defining relevant RI objects’ condition information (measurements) • Organizing, scheduling and performing condition information collection (measurements) • Storing RI objects’ condition information • Managing RI objects’ condition information (e.g. presenting “raw” data) • On-line real-time vs. continuous (regular time-based) monitoring Infrastructure Life Cycle Management • Managing RI objects condition (degradation modeling) • Life Cycle Management principles • Developing and