The paper deals with the issue of lifecycle stages of motor vehicles. This topic is trending around sustainability issues, given the very unfavorable age structure, increasing import of used cars, which causes an increasing intensity of the number of waste vehicles. This situation creates problems with management of all kinds of waste. Optimal life of a motor vehicle is 10-15 years on average. Indi- vidual phases of lifecycle are indicated differently with multiple parameters. All phases are influenced by many factors, but this paper focuses on maturity and decline phases. Key findings suggest that dif- ferent market, business and environment indicators define the key stages of the lifecycle-maturity and decline stages. Future research will expand the sample on other countries from the Balkans region.
The availability of real-time data on the state of railway facilities and the state-of-the art technologies for data collection and analysis allow transition to the fourth generation maintenance. It is based on the prediction of the facility functional safety and dependability and the risk-oriented facility management. The article describes an approach to assessing the risks of hazardous facility failures using the latest digital data processing methods. The implementation of this approach will help set maintenance objectives and contribute to the efficient use of resources and the reduction of railway facility managers’ expenditures.
The paper deals with the issue of lifecycle stages of motor vehicles. This topic is trending around sustainability issues, given the very unfavorable age structure, increasing import of used cars, which causes an increasing intensity of the number of waste vehicles. This situation creates problems with management of all kinds of waste. Optimal life of a motor vehicle is 10-15 years on average. Indi- vidual phases of lifecycle are indicated differently with multiple parameters. All phases are influenced by many factors, but this paper focuses on maturity and decline phases. Key findings suggest that dif- ferent market, business and environment indicators define the key stages of the lifecycle-maturity and decline stages. Future research will expand the sample on other countries from the Balkans region.
