For all organizations attaching great value to cost-consciousness, considerations of life cycle costs are gaining importance. This is certainly true for many railways worldwide.

VAE accepts the challenge and meets these new demands by presenting specific solutions.

In addition to the price of a product, the maintenance costs have a high influence on life cycle costs.

LCC optimized turnouts are ensured by the following measures:

- minimize the forces and acceleration forces acting on turnouts

- design turnout components in line with expected loads by using finite element calculations

- use optimum materials, in particular for those parts of the turnouts subjected to highest loads

- use low-maintenance components to reduce maintenance and repair work.