RAILER System for Maintenance Management of U.S. Army Railroad Networks: RAILER I Computer User's Guide

摘要

The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA-CERL) is developing the RAILER Maintenance Management system for managing the inspection, evaluation, and repair of Army railroad networks. This guide focuses on RAILER I, an interim system whose capabilities support FORMAP-2, a multiyear rail rehabilitation program at U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) and National Guard installations. RAILER I consists of a set of data collection procedures and a computer program which will help Directorate of Engineering and Housing personnel locate and identify their installation's railroad assets, assess current network conditions, determine short- and long-term maintenance and repair (M&R) needs, and systematically plan M&R work. The last activity is assisted by the Forces Command Railroad Project Prioritization Program (FORPROP), developed concurrently by USA-CERL. FORPROP uses data from RAILER to prioritize M&R efforts. This guide explains how to operate the RAILER I software. It includes instructions for entering data, updating data, and generating reports for the main trackage; for doing the same for related facilities data; and for preparing data for use in FORPROP. It also includes data collection forms at the end of each section to help illustrate their use. The development of RAILER I and its application to managing a railroad network are described in USA-CERL Technical Report M-88/18, The RAILER System for Management of U.S. Army Railroad Networks: RAILER I Description and Use. Keywords: Railroad maintenance, Cost analyses, Microcomputers.