Life cycle cost estimation for high-speed transportation systems

This paper presents an innovative methodology and tool developed by Politecnico di Torino and the European Space Agency (ESA) to support life cycle cost (LCC) estimation for high-speed transportation systems. This ad hoc built-in tool aims at supporting engineers in cost estimations during conceptual and preliminary design phases. This includes the evaluation of research, development, test and evaluation costs (RDTE costs), production costs as well as direct and indirect operating costs (DOC and IOC). Eventually, the results of the LCC evaluation for two different high-speed transport vehicles is provided and discussed