Given the pressure to increase track utilisation, the ageing infrastructure of railway networks, constrained maintenance budgets, the vertical separation of the ownership and operation of railway track infrastructure and rolling stock in many countries, and concerns about the environmental impacts of transport, there is a need to implement sustainable maintenance strategies. To this end, this talk presents an approach to appraise the investment in railway track maintenance.

About our Speaker:

Dr. Manu Sasidharan is an expert in transport infrastructure asset management and works as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and is associated with the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Institute for Manufacturing and Trust and Technology Initiative. He is also a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on risk-informed and data-centric approaches for managing critical transport infrastructures of roads, railways and bridges while considering wider socio-technical, economic and environmental implications. Additionally, he investigates questions on safety, justice and governance of transport systems, and transport as a means to sustainable development in urban and rural settings. He earlier read for his PhD in Civil Engineering from Birmingham University where he developed a risk-informed approach for the strategic asset management of railway tracks. He is a recipient of the Prestige Award for Young Researchers from the World Transport Research Society and has worked with transport authorities, industry and policy makers in the UK, India and Africa. He was recently selected as Top 40 under 40 influential leaders for EU-UK-India relationship in science and technology.

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