People and Rail Systems [electronic resource] : Human Factors at the Heart of the Railway.
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Human factors in road and rail transport.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Introduction; 2. Real Prediction of Real Performance; PART II: PASSENGERS AND PUBLIC; 3. Wayfinding, Accessibility, Inclusive Design and Passenger Information Systems: 'Euston Station and Beyond'; 4. Improving the Content and Placement of Anti-Trespass Signs; 5. Travel Information vs Commercial Signboards: The Battle between Travel and Shopping; PART III: DRIVER PERFORMANCE AND WORKLOAD.
- 6. Assessing the Impact of Increased Numbers of CCTV Images on Driver Only Operation of a Train7. Understanding Driver Route knowledge; 8. Robot Trains: Results of Focus Groups with Remote Control Operators in the United States and Canada; PART IV: DRIVING AND COGNITION; 9. Cognitive Workload of Train Drivers; 10. Train Drivers and Fatal Accidents on the Rails: Psychological Aspects and Safety; 11. The Cognitive Tasks of the Driver: The Approach and Passage Through Diverging Junctions; 12. A Train Driving Simulator Experiment to Investigate Driver Fault Diagnosis.
- PART V: TRAIN CAB AND INTERFACES: SIMULATION AND DESIGN13. An Ergonomics Methodology for Retrofitting Equipment in Train Cabs; 14. The Waterfall Train Accident: Implications and Lessons Learnt; 15. Determining User Requirements for a Human Factors Research Train Driver Simulator; 16. A Facility for Testing ERTMS/ETCS Conformity and Human Factors; 17. Cardboard to Computers: An Evolution of Design Visualisation; PART VI: ROUTES, SIGNAGE, SIGNALS AND DRIVABILITY; 18. Early Route Drivability Assessment in Support of Railway Investment.
- 19. Development of a Route Assessment Checklist Tool for Train Operators20. Informing Signage Positioning Rules Through a Human Factors Assessment of Signal/Sign Co-location; PART VII: SIGNALLING AND CONTROL OF THE RAILWAY; 21. Mental Workload Assessment and the Development of the Operational Demand Evaluation Checklist (ODEC) for Signallers; 22. Supervision in Signal Boxes; 23. Prediction of Signaller Workload; 24. Collecting Human Factors Attitudes and Opinions from Signallers: Development and Use of REQUEST (The Railway Ergonomics Questionnaire).
- 25. Ergonomics Assessment of Lever Operation in Mechanical Signalling26. From the Horse's Mouth: The Contribution of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to Study of Rail Work Systems; 27. Work Analysis and Distributed Cognition Representation of Integrated Rail Operations; PART VIII: PLANNING FOR THE RAILWAY; 28. Planning, Reasoning and Patterns of Inferences: An Empirical Study into the Reasoning of Staff Planners in The Netherlands Railways; 29. Implementation of a Test System for Evaluation of New Concepts in Rail Traffic Planning and Control.