Human factors and automation in future railway systems
This special issue contributes to the achievement of challenges related to human factors and automation dedicated to future railway systems. It includes transverse research topics by considering several emerging trends as the design of learning ...
Pedagogical learning supports based on human–systems inclusion applied to rail flow control
The paper presents the new concept on human–systems inclusion for designing, analyzing or evaluating human–machine systems and applied it to two case studies on rail flow control. Human–systems inclusion is related to the development of online ...
Individual accidents at the interface between platform, train and tracks (PT2I) in the subway: a literature review
The subway context is a risky environment. Hundreds of individual incidents occur every year in this environment, entailing a safety issue for subway companies and safety organisations. This review deals with individual incidents at the platform–...
Modelling driver decision-making at railway level crossings using the abstraction decomposition space
- Guy Walker,
- Leonardo Moraes Naves Mendes,
- Michael Lenne,
- Kristie Young,
- Nicholas Stevens,
- Gemma Read,
- Vanessa Beanland,
- Ashleigh Filtness,
- Neville Stanton,
- Paul Salmon
The objective of this paper is to cast users of railway level crossings as flexible and adaptive decision-makers, and to apply a cognitive systems engineering approach to discover new behaviour-based insights for improving safety. Collisions ...
Human factors applications of on-train-data-recorder (OTDR) data: an exploratory study
This paper describes the results of an exploratory study on the analysis of on-train-data-recorder (OTDR) data. The results are discussed in terms of their applicability in competence management and human factors research. Data were downloaded for ...
Modelling decision-making within rail maintenance control rooms
This paper presents a cognitive task analysis to derive models of decision-making for rail maintenance processes. Maintenance processes are vital for safe and continuous availability of rail assets and services. These processes are increasingly ...
Task-induced fatigue when implementing high grades of railway automation
The study was focused on the effects of different grades of railway automation on task-induced fatigue and workload in train drivers and, when considering high grades of automation, operational staff in a control centre, so-called train operators. ...
Design of a cooperative eco-driving rail control system: an experimental study
The paper proposes an original framework to design cooperative eco-driving (economic driving) rail control system called CEDRICS. A generic method to design cooperative support system is applied to build CEDRICS by taking into account real human ...
Mental workload evaluation and its application in train driving multitasking scheduling: a Timed Petri Net-based model
Mental workload (MW) plays an important role in the task design of safety–critical systems, which varies across different operators in a given task and affects the performance. It is still a problem to provide a quantitative definition of MW and ...
Technostress inhibitors and creators and their impacts on university teachers’ work performance in higher education
This study investigated the relationships among specific technostress inhibitors (literacy facilitation, technical support provision, and involvement facilitation) and creators (techno-overload, techno-complexity, techno-insecurity, and techno-...
The relationship between perceived crowding and cyberloafing in open offices at Iranian IT-based companies
The aim of this study is to explore whether aspects of the physical work environment cause employee cyberloafing, which is defined as employee misuse of the company’s Internet connection for personal purposes. Drawing on conservation of resources ...
Co-evolution of work structure and process in organizations: improvisation in post-disaster debris removal operations
This study examines the performance of cognitive work—as constrained by physical, policy and resource-related factors—in the near-simultaneous design and execution of disaster response operations. The demands of the situation described here—the ...
Designing flight deck applications: combining insight from end-users and ergonomists
- Katie J. Parnell,
- Victoria A. Banks,
- Craig K. Allison,
- Katherine L. Plant,
- Peter Beecroft,
- Neville A. Stanton
Technological advancement brings opportunities for enhanced information, support, and functionality within the flight deck. Whilst this has many benefits to the pilot and the overall safety of the aircraft, the practical integration of new ...
Road users rarely use explicit communication when interacting in today’s traffic: implications for automated vehicles
- Yee Mun Lee,
- Ruth Madigan,
- Oscar Giles,
- Laura Garach-Morcillo,
- Gustav Markkula,
- Charles Fox,
- Fanta Camara,
- Markus Rothmueller,
- Signe Alexandra Vendelbo-Larsen,
- Pernille Holm Rasmussen,
- Andre Dietrich,
- Dimitris Nathanael,
- Villy Portouli,
- Anna Schieben,
- Natasha Merat
To be successful, automated vehicles (AVs) need to be able to manoeuvre in mixed traffic in a way that will be accepted by road users, and maximises traffic safety and efficiency. A likely prerequisite for this success is for AVs to be able to ...
