Rail Human Factors around the World (ebook)

This book, the third on rail human factors, is drawn from papers presented at the Lille 3rd International Conference on Rail Human Factors. The contributions cover the range of human and organisational issues on the railway, from driving to signalling and control to maintenance and engineering work, to passengers and security issues such as trespass, and address improvements in safety, reliability, use of capacity, efficiency and quality.

The book represents the best of recent work in rail human factors, and starts to define the framework for the next few years. As well as the human factors areas listed above, the conference and thus the book are notable for sessions on simulation in rail human factors and on human factors in metro design and operation. The book also reflects the increased attention being paid to, and developments in, understanding all aspects of rail stakeholders’ behaviour, and also the contribution of ergonomics/human factors to innovative network control systems which will enhance reliability, safety and use of capacity.

The book will be of interest to a number of groups: those working in the rail sector from a human factors point of view; the larger rail industry and related bodies generally; and in terms of transferrable knowledge to ergonomists and human factors specialists working in other industries.

Why are Dutch cargo trains 2.6 times more often involved in SPADs compared to passenger trains?
How much regulation should there be? Rules and their application in three different fields of railway work
Assessment of train drivers’ performance in a driving simulator
Human factors integration in rail simulators
Human factors and London Underground: Past, present and future
Effective human factors integration in the design of a signalling and train control system for the metro rail industry
Measuring situation awareness in rail signalling
Effects of level of signalling automation on workload and performance
Signaller workload exploration and assessment tool (SWEAT)
Red means stop, doesn’t it? A human factors trial of a UK train safety system driver-machine interface
“By the seat of their pants” cues and feedback used by train crew
Another train coming:Warnings at automatic level crossings
Awareness and attention training for railway signallers
Providing better information during temporary timetable changes
etc.