SMaRTE Smart Maintenance and the Rail Traveller Experience is a European research project within the Horizon 2020 programmeof the European Commission. SMaRTE brings together tworelated but distinct areas of research. Smart maintenance and human factors areconcerned with digitisation and the use of information to enhance decisionmaking, either by industry players in respect of maintenance decisions, or byusers of the system in employing smart applications to navigate the rail systemand its interaction with other modes.

The challenge of the smart maintenancestream of this work (henceforth referred to as smart maintenance) is to improvecurrent railway train maintenance systems, through the integration ofpredictive data analysis algorithms and online optimization tools within animproved Condition Based Maintenance strategy.