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Environmental Management Systems In Rail Operation And Maintenance: Current Practice And Potential Improvements

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  • KRISTINA LUNDBERG

    (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • BERIT BALFORS

    (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • LENNART FOLKESON

    (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden)

Abstract

Environmental management systems (EMS) require performance evaluation of significant environmental aspects. Much has been published on how to achieve environmental performance evaluation but little information is available on applications in practice. The Swedish National Rail Administration,Banverket, initiated the implementation of EMS in 1998, at about the same time as many other rail administrations. In this paper an overview of the application of EMS at rail administrations in selected countries is presented and systems for environmental performance evaluation within the EMS used by Banverket are analysed. The use of EMS by rail administrations was found to vary from the absence of environmental management to fully implemented EMS, mainly ISO 14001. At Banverket, EMS is widely used but the environmental performance evaluation could be improved by introducing indicators and merging all types of environmental monitoring, currently reported separately, into a common system.

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  • Kristina Lundberg & Berit Balfors & Lennart Folkeson, 2005. "Environmental Management Systems In Rail Operation And Maintenance: Current Practice And Potential Improvements," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(03), pages 433-456.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:07:y:2005:i:03:n:s1464333205002134
    DOI: 10.1142/S1464333205002134
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