Environmental Sustainability in Maintenance Management of Public Transport Systems: Literature Review

The aim of this paper is to review the maintenance management literature and identify how it deals with sustainability issues in the public transport context. The topics that are covered in the review include maintenance strategies, Maintenance Strategy Selection (MSS), decision-making techniques used in MSS, maintenance performance, and environmental sustainability. It was found that MSS is typical multiple criteria decision making problem, and identifying selection criteria is very important step in this context. However, none of the reviewed literature has covered a complete and comprehensive set of sustainability criteria pertaining to automotive in transport systems. Although, there are several decision-making techniques that are being used in MSS, there is a need for further research on selecting the right decision-making model that is suitable for transport systems. It is clear that a holistic approach covering all sustainability criteria pertaining automotive means of transport systems is needed.