For infrastructure facilities, as they are used for instance at train stations, the topic of RAMS/LCC is gaining increasingly in importance as well.

A decision to order of an infrastructural facility such as an escalator system causes noteworthy investments. The contractually agreed characteristics of the escalator in regard to reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) determine the Life Cycle Costs (LCC) and therefore the operating cost in a crucial way in the consecutive decades as well.