Boarding and alighting injury experience with different station platform and car entranceway designs on US commuter railroads

Morlok, E K; Nitzberg, Bradley F.; Lai, Lee Lee

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(03)00003-4

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“…Injuries to transit passengers are often a consequence of non-collision incidents. Such incidents tend to occur during the process of boarding or alighting (Morlok et al, 2004;Hundenski, 1992) and during a vehicle's acceleration or deceleration phases (Wahlberg, 2007). The risk of boarding and alighting injuries may be less for "low-floor" and "kneeling" buses, especially for passengers with medical or physical impairments, as well as for those who are "under the influence."…”

Section: Review Of Safety Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Bus Collision Incidents Using Transit ITS and other Archived Operations Data

Strathman¹,

Wachana

Callas³

2010

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This report analyzes factors contributing to bus operations safety incidents at TriMet, the transit provider for the Portland Oregon metropolitan region. The analysis focuses on 4,631 collision and non-collision incidents that occurred between 2006 and 2009. Empirical analysis of these incidents draws on a wide array of operator-level data recovered by transit ITS technologies in combination with information from TriMet's human resources, scheduling, and customer relations databases. Incident frequencies are estimated in relation to operators' demographic characteristics, employment status, assigned work characteristics, service delivery and performance indicators, temporal factors, and customer information. Apart from identifying factors that are empirically related to the frequency of safety incidents, the findings offer insights into operations policies and practices that hold promise for improving safety.

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Section: Review Of Safety Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Bus Collision Incidents Using Transit ITS and other Archived Operations Data

Strathman¹,

Wachana

Callas³

2010

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“…Moving away from rail staff and looking at other stakeholders, a reasonably long-standing and continuing theme of rail human factors research has been in ride quality and passenger comfort [83,84] Support for passengers also comes through the interfaces to the information and ticketing systems with which they are provided [85,86] and the design for their movement around stations and in boarding and alighting trains [87,88]. In less positive circumstances, there is also a need to understand how people behave in emergencies and how to best help them evacuate carriages when necessary or to support their rescuers [89][90][91] and to design carriages to reduce the chance of injury [92].…”

Section: Design For Neighbours -Passengers and Publicmentioning

confidence: 99%

The railway as a socio-technical system: Human factors at the heart of successful rail engineering

Wilson¹,

Farrington-Darby

Cox

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:

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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 maximum possible use of capacity. However, the railway is a socio-technical system and therefore has human factors at its core, which requires a strong integrated ergonomics contribution. Moreover, this contribution must be at a systems level rather than providing point solutions to particular equipment, interface, workplace, or job problems. This paper draws from the first two human factors projects in the EPSRC Rail Research UK programme, interpreting them for an engineering audience. The paper first emphasizes and gives examples of the need for a systems ergonomics contribution to engineering an improved railway. Then the available literature is summarized in a structured fashion. Finally, a short summary is provided of the research which has started to develop a distributed cognition model of work on the railways, especially across functional groups of signalling, control, and train driving.

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“…Branton (1993b), Fo¨rstberg (1997Fo¨rstberg ( , 2000, Fo¨rstberg et al (1998), Suzuki et al (1999), Suzuki and Shiroto (2002), van der Weide (1999). Support for passengers also comes through the interfaces to the information and ticketing systems with which they are provided (Davis and Mills, 2005;Garnerin, 2001;Lamel et al, 2002;Thimbleby et al, 2002), and with designing for their movement around stations and in boarding and alighting trains (Morlok et al, 2004). In less positive circumstances there is also a need to understand how people behave in emergencies and how to best help them evacuate carriages when necessary or to support their rescuers (e.g.…”

Section: Rail Human Factors Research To Datementioning

confidence: 99%

Rail human factors: Past, present and future

Wilson

Norris

2005

Applied Ergonomics

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Boarding and alighting injury experience with different station platform and car entranceway designs on US commuter railroads

Cited by 13 publications

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Analysis of Bus Collision Incidents Using Transit ITS and other Archived Operations Data

Analysis of Bus Collision Incidents Using Transit ITS and other Archived Operations Data

The railway as a socio-technical system: Human factors at the heart of successful rail engineering

Rail human factors: Past, present and future

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