Rail human factors research has grown rapidly in both quantity and quality of output over the
past few years. There was an early base of work at a few institutions carried out over the …

A major technological shift is occurring in the railways giving rise to new safety concerns.
The speed in which change is occurring along with technological trends is significant for an …

This paper focuses on the design of decision support systems for emergency managers in
charge of planning, coordinating and controlling the actions carried out to respond to a …

High-quality engineering and operations management are key to meeting all the
requirements of a successful railway-quality of service, reliable and safe performance, and …

In this article we propose an approach for a decision support system (DSS) based on
Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD). In such system, user must be involved …

One of the critical infrastructure components in most economies across the world is the rail
network. In different nations rail is responsible for ensuring that there is not complete …

This paper presents a human-centred design approach for developing Decision Support
Systems (DSS) based on a Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) process. The KDD …

This paper presents a methodology with which evaluation of control rooms in safety–critical
industry has been carried out. The results of two cases of evaluation in nuclear power plants …

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 …

In a complicated sea environment, a ship needs experienced seafarers to steer it safely.
Advancements in technology have not fundamentally reduced the number of accidents at …