The article is dedicated to the modelling of operations & maintenance of vehicles scheduled to be operated. This specific feature is illustrative of the vehicle operation process in the military system. The presented model of the operation process of vehicles scheduled to be operated, using the Markov chain theory, contains indicators and measures essential for the vehicle operation, i.e. repair defectiveness, repair intensity, usage intensity and failure intensity. This model enables to quantify the impact of the introduced changes in operational practice or changes planned as a forecast, which is shown in the examples.

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This paper is focused on determining the technical readiness of cars in a transport system scheduled to be operated. In this way, cars are used in natural or military disaster recovery systems. Determining the technical readiness according to the average number of defects without taking account of the intensity of using them and mileage at the beginning of operation prevents from making a detailed assessment of the technical readiness of particular cars up to date. This manuscript attempts to prove a thesis that determining the operational readiness of cars, especially those scheduled to be operated, including functional and task readiness, requires monitoring of damages in time separate for every car.

Quantification of operational availability at any moment, of cars utilized in action operations is the result of the processed information from the monitoring of use and maintenance processes. The collection of information on the monitoring processes and its structure are secondary to the applied preparedness and reliability indicators.This study, based on data from the literature and normative acts, contains the characteristics of the preparedness models used in the military transportation system and the indicators used for controlling its exploitation. The specific issue in this approach is an attempt to indicate how to assess the impact of the vehicle wear on their preparedness, reliability and availability. Not only the need, but also the possibility to account for this impact, was justified by empirical characterization of damageability of the vehicles operated with varying intensity of use. Varying intensity of use of vehicles suitable for a variety of cargo shipments, is a characteristic phenomenon in the system with action specificity like the military transportation system in the status of waiting for the full functioning.The study also attempted to utilize index, defined in the defence standards, for quantification of operational availability of vehicles utilized in the system with action characteristics, and also an attempt to identify their reliability and availability.