Interpreting the influencing factors within the decision making process between two train safety systems at ProRail: An explorative study

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This thesis explores the decision making process about the implementation of a new train safety system at ProRail. ProRail is responsible for the entire rail infrastructure of the Netherlands and faces tasks such as maintaining, optimising and replacing the infrastructure. One of ProRail’s current projects concerns aged train safety systems and they must be replaced before 2018, because the economic and technical life-cycle will come to an end. A general choice between two families of train safety systems has to be established. In addition, reliability and safety may diminish if the aged train safety systems are not replaced on time. One of ProRail’s incentives is to maintain maximum availability and safety of the railway infrastructure for transport companies, therefore this project can be considered as a very important project. The endurance of the decision making process constitutes ten years and is still ongoing. Therefore, we are intrigued to find out why the endurance of this pro

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