Finally, the proposed reliability metrics and estimation methodologies are applied on a bimodal traffic network with highway-railway at-grade crossings in Lincoln to evaluate the impact of train traffic on the roadway travel time reliability.

This book discusses recent developments in dynamic reliability in multi-state systems (MSS), addressing such important issues as reliability and availability analysis of aging MSS, the impact of initial conditions on MSS reliability and availability, changing importance of components over time in MSS with aging components, and the determination of age-replacement policies. It also describes modifications of traditional methods, such as Markov processes with rewards, as well as a modern mathematical method based on the extended universal generating function technique, the Lz-transform, presenting various successful applications and demonstrating their use in real-world problems. This book provides theoretical insights, information on practical applications, and real-world case studies that are of interest to engineers and industrial managers as well as researchers. It also serves as a textbook or supporting text for graduate and postgraduate courses in industrial, electrical, and mechanical engineering.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2020, held in Kraków, Poland, in October 2020. The 34 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: telematics in road transport - general view; telematics in road transport - details in applications.- telematics in rail and marine transport; general about telematics.