Rail Human Factors : Supporting Reliability, Safety and Cost Reduction (Paperback)

Passengers and station

Using technology to improve the efficient use of rail stations
E. Thompson, T. Kazi, K. Wright, M.Woods & R. Blakemore

Guidelines for the design and evaluation of railway warning signs for young children
A. Monk & P.Waterson

Station wayfinding ? practical experience and the way forward
D.Watts, A. Parkes, N. Hayden-Smith & M. Stearn

Level crossing & bridges

What does it all mean? Road user comprehension of signs and signals at public road level crossings
D. Basacik, S. Cynk, T. Flint & J. McMorrow

Decision-making at level crossings ? should a decision point marker be provided?
C. Turner, A. McKenzie Kerr, A. Mills, J. McMorrow & E. Lowe

Checking for trains: An on-road study of what drivers actually do at level crossings
M.G. Lenne, V. Beanland, P.M. Salmon, A. Filtness & N.A. Stanton

Can you tame a level crossing? Results from a driving simulator based paradigm
M.H. Cale, A. Gellert, N. Katz & W. Sommer

An innovative information gathering and data analysis platform for railway level crossing safety data
C.Wullems, Y. Toft & G. Dell

Reducing the number and impact of railway underline bridge strikes
M.J. Stout & D. Basacik

Suicide

Developing methodology in restrail for the preliminary evaluation of preventative measures for railway suicide and trespass
B. Ryan &V.-P. Kallberg

Musculoskeletal Disorder and cab design

Musculoskeletal Disorder risk assessment tool for train drivers
A. Scott & M. Stout

A driver-centred driver’s safety device
D. Hitchcock, C. Morris & A. Taylor

Static anthropometry measures of tram drivers in Bosnia & Herzegovina important for tram control panel design
D. Sumpor, Z. To? & N. Musaba?ic

Driver advisory system and automation

Human factor challenges in the development of a Driver Advisory System for regional passenger trains
T. Albrecht

Automation effects in train driving with train protection systems ? assessing person- and task-related factors
S. Giesemann

Designing train Driver Advisory Systems for situation awareness
S. Tschirner, A.W. Andersson & B. Sandblad

The state of the information environment of the crew’s cabin according to progress of systematisation
M. Kuratani

ERTMS

A comparative cognitive task analysis of the different forms of driving in the UK rail system
A. Buksh, S. Sharples, J.R.Wilson, A. Coplestone & G. Morrisroe

Bridging the gap between technology and adoption: A case study
E. Thompson, T. Kazi &A. Scott

A method for assessing drivability for ETCS cab retrofit
H. Blanchard

Investigating the effects of the ERTMS driver machine interface on train driver behaviour and railway safety
L. Kecklund, A. LindgrenWalter & E. Nordlof

Metro

The implications of automation on human intervention at London Underground
J.Wackrow & A. Slamen

Human factors for the London Underground stations upgrade programme
N. Scard & G. Brown

The observatron: Collecting task time data using a bespoke software application
P. Salkeld

Meeting the challenges of Human Factors Integration in a multi-stage project to re-signal and re-control a metro
S. Heape

Fitting a Jubilee line shaped peg into a Northern line shaped hole
L. Kelly

Applying current alarm management guidance for a 21st century railway
J. Murphy, M. Lowten & K. Hope

Developing a tram driver route learning training simulator for Manchester’s Metrolink Trams
I. Rowe

Amsterdam Metro cab: Ergonomics in the design, verification and validation process
R. van derWeide, H.F.L. Frieling, F. Malle & D. Miglianico

Reflections on the progress and lessons learnt from implementing human factors in MTR Corporation operations division
K. Priestley & Z. Tse

Managing the risks associated with a basic yet critical maintenance operation in the Paris metro workshops
J.-P. Bert & F. Jubert

Safety assessment of CCTV for platform interface tasks ? Sydney Suburban Trains
P. Traub & G. Fraser

Fatigue

Work patterns of freight drivers and recovery from shift work
K.A. Robertson, M.B. Spencer, A. McGuffog, S. Hesketh & A. Mills

On-call scheduling in rail maintenance ? diary research challenges in an industrial context
N. Cebola, D. Golightly, J.R.Wilson & E. Lowe

Fatigue, anxiety, and performance for on-call safety critical decision makers in rail maintenance ? a diary study
N. Cebola, D. Golightly, J.R.Wilson & E. Lowe

Rail staff fatigue ? the GB regulator’s perspective on managing the risks
J. Mawhood & C. Dickinson

Can you know if someone is too tired to drive safely?
M. Cale, I. Haimov, Y. Shafran & O. Tzischinsky

Traffic management

‘He’s not from around here!’ The significance of local knowledge
L. Pickup, N. Balfe, E. Lowe & J.R.Wilson

A sociotechnical comparison of automated train traffic control between GB and Sweden
D. Golightly, B. Sandblad, N. Dadashi, A.W. Andersson, S. Tschirner & S. Sharples

Dispatching, planning, passenger support, multi-actor systems and organizational structures in The Netherlands Railways (NS)
N.R. Faber & R.J. Jorna

Analysis of collaboration applied to train drivers and train traffic controllers in Sweden
S. Tschirner, B. Sandblad, A.W. Andersson, P. Hellstrom & G. Isaksson-Lutteman

Requirements elicitation for disruption management support
N. Dadashi, D. Golightly & S. Sharples

Signaller information use in traffic regulation decisions
C. Patrick, N. Balfe, J.R.Wilson & R. Houghton

The future of signaller workload assessments in an automated world
N. Hayden-Smith

Using graphical support tools to encourage active planning at stations
R. Charles, N. Balfe, J.R.Wilson, S. Sharples & M. Carey

Track worker

Applying lean techniques to analyse railway possessions and isolations to identify opportunities for more effective procedures
W. Garner & S. Stiles

Perceptions of accident risk among on-track machine workers: An interview study
J.I. Morgan, R. Abbott, P. Furness & S.Webster-Spriggs

Designing mobile user experiences: Disruptive innovation in railway asset information
R. Bye

HF integration

Systems approaches in ergonomics/human factors applied within rail systems engineering
J.R.Wilson

Humans as an asset in a system consideration on the contribution of humans to system performance and system safety
M.P. Zeilstra & R. van derWeide

Organisational and human aspects of safety at border crossings
V. Papillault & C. Neveu

Rules and standards

Evaluation of the new approach rule book
A. Mills, S. Evans, H. Gibson & A. Monk

‘We were doing this before human factors was invented’ ? signals standards from a user-centred perspective
T. Flint & R. Barrow

Current practices of the assessment and acceptance of risks related to human interactions within the European railways
L. Kecklund, A.O. Mowitz & M. Antova

Competence

Non-technical skills for rail: Development, piloting, evaluation, and implementation of courses for front-line staff and managers
K. Bonsall-Clarke & S. Pugh

The introduction of non-technical skills into a train driver competence management system
A.J. Russell, S. Bailey &A.C. Moore

Achieving compliance through people: Training supervisors to tackle procedural non-compliance
P. Leach, R. Canham & J. Berman

Searching for safe drivers: Challenges in making decisions about test use in safety critical industries
S. Evans, C. Johnson & T. Flint

Human factors awareness training for incident investigators: What impact has it had three years later?
S. Evans

The development of a risk-based training needs analysis methodology and tool
P. Shah, A. Taylor & K. Bonsall-Clarke

A good practice guide on competence development
P. Shah, K. Bonsall-Clarke & A. Taylor

Raising awareness of risk perception: When, how, who
P. Calvo Holgado, C. Garcia Suarez & B. Gil de Egea

Safety culture

Human error prevention effect of point and call check used by railway workers in Japan
M. Shigemori, A. Sato, T. Masuda & S. Haga

Our efforts in developing a safety culture ? establishment of safety management system on the basis of risk assessment
Y. Mito

Study of effective praise in train driver’s workplace
T. Horishita, K. Yamaura & M. Kanayama

Study of train drivers’ work motivation and its relationship to organisational factors in a Japanese railway company
H. Fujino, T. Horishita, T. Sonoda & H. Yamaguchi

Mental workload and situation awareness

Prediction of mental workload of monitoring tasks
C.Weeda & M. Zeilstra

Subjective mental workload of Dutch train dispatchers: Validation of IWS in a practical setting
M.S.Wilms & M.P. Zeilstra

Incident investigation

Incident Factor Classification System
W.H. Gibson, S. Smith, E. Lowe, A.M. Mills, G. Morse & S. Carpenter

Developing an effective corrective action process: Lessons learned from operating a confidential close call reporting system
J. Multer, J. Ranney, J. Hile &T. Raslear

Human reliability

Railway action reliability assessment, a railway-specific approach to human error quantification
W.H. Gibson, A.M. Mills, S. Smith & B.K. Kirwan

Human factors in railway vehicle axle inspection
M.J. Stout,W.H. Gibson, K. Timmis & S. Mills

The retrospective use of AcciMaps in the graphical representation of rail incidents
A. Farooqi, B. Ryan & J.R.Wilson

A new approach for the assessment of human reliability in German railway risk assessments
B. Milius

The influence of selecting a specific sample of hazardous events on the evaluation of the train driver’s reliability
T. Lindner

Modeling human-machine interaction for the assessment of human reliability
D. Schwencke, J. Grippenkoven & K. Lemmer

Humanscan®: A software solution towards the management of human reliability in the rail industry
B. Gil de Egea, P. Calvo Holgado & C. Garcia Suarez

Resilience and emergency

Proposition of an organisational resilience assessment framework dedicated to railway traffic management
E. Rigaud, C. Neveu, S. Duvenci-Langa, M.-N. Obrist & S. Rigaud

A study of evacuation guidance in earthquake and tsunami disaster
T. Yamakawa

Safety and evacuations: A risk assessment of the potential use of bidirectional video communication in safe rooms
S.M. Brotnov, A.-M. Braaten & S. Zarghooni

Author index