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1 Decision Making for Repair Versus Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment Motivation Fleet managers regularly face the question: what should be done with a downed piece of equipment? Answers to this question fall into the following four categories: • Repair: Restoring the unit to its pre-repair condition.
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2 Decision Making for Repair Versus Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment Video explanations of the 4R Tool can be found on the National Academies Press website (nap.nationalacademies.org) by searching for NCHRP Research Report 1046: Decision Making for Repair Versus Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment.
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Summary 3 option. The vertical delta between two given lines at a specific equipment age is the "cost of the wrong decision." In Figure 2, the vertical distance between the options to rebuild or to repair at 4,000 hours is the cost to the user if they choose the option to repair instead of the lower-cost option, which would be to rebuild.
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