Rail human factors : supporting reliability, safety and cost reduction

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Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 11
Passengers and station......Page 13
Using technology to improve the efficient use of rail stations......Page 14
Guidelines for the design and evaluation of railway warning signs for young children......Page 24
Station wayfinding – practical experience and the way forward......Page 33
Level crossing & bridges......Page 43
What does it all mean? Road user comprehension of signs and signals at public road level crossings......Page 44
Decision-making at level crossings – should a decision point marker be provided?......Page 54
Checking for trains: An on-road study of what drivers actually do at level crossings......Page 62
Can you tame a level crossing? Results from a driving simulator based paradigm......Page 69
An innovative information gathering and data analysis platform for railway level crossing safety data......Page 79
Reducing the number and impact of railway underline bridge strikes......Page 89
Suicide......Page 95
Developing methodology in restrail for the preliminary evaluation of preventative measures for railway suicide and trespass......Page 96
Musculoskeletal Disorder and cab design......Page 106
Musculoskeletal Disorder risk assessment tool for train drivers......Page 107
A driver-centred driver’s safety device......Page 115
Static anthropometry measures of tram drivers in Bosnia & Herzegovina important for tram control panel design......Page 124
Driver advisory system and automation......Page 132
Human factor challenges in the development of a Driver Advisory System for regional passenger trains......Page 133
Automation effects in train driving with train protection systems – assessing person- and task-related factors......Page 143
Designing train Driver Advisory Systems for situation awareness......Page 154
The state of the information environment of the crew’s cabin according to progress of systematisation......Page 164
ERTMS......Page 174
A comparative cognitive task analysis of the different forms of driving in the UK rail system......Page 175
Bridging the gap between technology and adoption: A case study......Page 185
A method for assessing drivability for ETCS cab retrofit......Page 193
Investigating the effects of the ERTMS driver machine interface on train driver behaviour and railway safety......Page 203
Metro......Page 208
The implications of automation on human intervention at London Underground......Page 209
Human factors for the London Underground stations upgrade programme......Page 219
The observatron: Collecting task time data using a bespoke software application......Page 229
Meeting the challenges of Human Factors Integration in a multi-stage project to re-signal and re-control a metro......Page 238
Fitting a Jubilee line shaped peg into a Northern line shaped hole......Page 246
Applying current alarm management guidance for a 21st century railway......Page 252
Developing a tram driver route learning training simulator for Manchester’s Metrolink Trams......Page 262
Amsterdam Metro cab: Ergonomics in the design, verification and validation process......Page 270
Reflections on the progress and lessons learnt from implementing human factors in MTR Corporation operations division......Page 280
Managing the risks associated with a basic yet critical maintenance operation in the Paris metro workshops......Page 289
Safety assessment of CCTV for platform interface tasks – Sydney Suburban Trains......Page 300
Fatigue......Page 309
Work patterns of freight drivers and recovery from shift work......Page 310
On-call scheduling in rail maintenance – diary research challenges in an industrial context......Page 318
Fatigue, anxiety, and performance for on-call safety critical decision makers in rail maintenance – a diary study......Page 327
Rail staff fatigue – the GB regulator’s perspective on managing the risks......Page 336
Can you know if someone is too tired to drive safely?......Page 346
Traffic management......Page 353
‘He’s not from around here!’ The significance of local knowledge......Page 354
A sociotechnical comparison of automated train traffic control between GB and Sweden......Page 364
Dispatching, planning, passenger support, multi-actor systems and organizational structures in The Netherlands Railways (NS)......Page 374
Analysis of collaboration applied to train drivers and train traffic controllers in Sweden......Page 386
Requirements elicitation for disruption management support......Page 396
Signaller information use in traffic regulation decisions......Page 406
The future of signaller workload assessments in an automated world......Page 416
Using graphical support tools to encourage active planning at stations......Page 424
Track worker......Page 430
Applying lean techniques to analyse railway possessions and isolations to identify opportunities for more effective procedures......Page 431
Perceptions of accident risk among on-track machine workers: An interview study......Page 441
Designing mobile user experiences: Disruptive innovation in railway asset information......Page 449
HF integration......Page 457
Systems approaches in ergonomics/human factors applied within rail systems engineering......Page 458
Humans as an asset in a system consideration on the contribution of humans to system performance and system safety......Page 468
Organisational and human aspects of safety at border crossings......Page 478
Rules and standards......Page 485
Evaluation of the new approach rule book......Page 486
‘We were doing this before human factors was invented’ – signals standards from a user-centred perspective......Page 492
Current practices of the assessment and acceptance of risks related to human interactions within the European railways......Page 501
Competence......Page 510
Non-technical skills for rail: Development, piloting, evaluation, and implementation of courses for front-line staff and managers......Page 511
The introduction of non-technical skills into a train driver competence management system......Page 521
Achieving compliance through people: Training supervisors to tackle procedural non-compliance......Page 531
Searching for safe drivers: Challenges in making decisions about test use in safety critical industries......Page 543
Human factors awareness training for incident investigators: What impact has it had three years later?......Page 553
The development of a risk-based training needs analysis methodology and tool......Page 561
A good practice guide on competence development......Page 570
Raising awareness of risk perception: When, how, who......Page 580
Safety culture......Page 588
Human error prevention effect of point and call check used by railway workers in Japan......Page 589
Our efforts in developing a safety culture – establishment of safety management system on the basis of risk assessment......Page 599
Study of effective praise in train driver’s workplace......Page 604
Study of train drivers’ work motivation and its relationship to organisational factors in a Japanese railway company......Page 611
Mental workload and situation awareness......Page 621
Prediction of mental workload of monitoring tasks......Page 622
Subjective mental workload of Dutch train dispatchers: Validation of IWS in a practical setting......Page 630
Incident investigation......Page 640
Incident Factor Classification System......Page 641
Developing an effective corrective action process: Lessons learned from operating a confidential close call reporting system......Page 647
Human reliability......Page 657
Railway action reliability assessment, a railway-specific approach to human error quantification......Page 658
Human factors in railway vehicle axle inspection......Page 664
The retrospective use of AcciMaps in the graphical representation of rail incidents......Page 670
A new approach for the assessment of human reliability in German railway risk assessments......Page 679
The influence of selecting a specific sample of hazardous events on the evaluation of the train driver’s reliability......Page 687
Modeling human-machine interaction for the assessment of human reliability......Page 694
Humanscan®: A software solution towards the management of human reliability in the rail industry......Page 705
Resilience and emergency......Page 712
Proposition of an organisational resilience assessment framework dedicated to railway traffic management......Page 713
A study of evacuation guidance in earthquake and tsunami disaster......Page 719
Safety and evacuations: A risk assessment of the potential use of bidirectional video communication in safe rooms......Page 724
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Z......Page 734