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... 8 Broken rails and their associated derailments are of serious concern to railroad and transit systems. A broken rail will often appear as a defect before growing to the point at which an actual break occurs.
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... Literature Review 9 Implementation of risk-based test scheduling techniques has been found to reduce the risk of derailments, specifically for a service defect–based definition of risk -- that is, the number of service defects per mile per year (Palese and Wright, 2000; Zarembski and Palese, 2003)
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... 10 Maintenance Planning for Rail Asset Management -- Current Practices 2007)

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