Table 15

Explanations of variables in Equations 1 and 2 (1/2)

VariableExplanationEquation/comment
Cpi-iPreventive intervention costsoOsS(epi-os×ucpi-os)
Cpi-ttTravel time costs due to preventive interventionsoOiI(tpi-o×v×p×att×uctt)
Cpi-aAccident costs due to preventive interventions0
Rf-iCorrective intervention risks (i.e. probability of failure multiplied by the costs of corrective interventions)oOsS(pf-os×eci-o×ucci-o)
Rf-ttTravel time risks (i.e. probability of failure multiplied the additional travel time costs)oOsS(pf-os×tf-o×v×p×att×uctt)
Rf-aAccident risks (i.e. probability of failure multiplied by the conditional probability of accident given a failure and the number of people on the train multiplied by the accident risks conditional on a failure)oOsSpf-os×pa-f×p×(pa-pd×uca-pd+pa-inj×uca-inj+pa-fat×uca-fat)
attAdditional travel time per train20 min/d – assumed to be constant for all interventions
eci-oExtent of object o in state s to have a corrective interventionCalculated using transition probabilities in Tables 10 and 11 and the strategies in Table 14 
epi-osExtent of object o in state s to have a preventive interventionCalculated using transition probabilities in Table 10 and the strategies in Table 8 

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