Railway accidents and incidents: Complex socio-technical system accident modelling comes of age

Klockner, Karen; Toft, Yvonne

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2017.11.022

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“…While competency-based approaches may be appropriate in some contexts, particularly those involving a greater reliance on perceptual or psychomotor activities, assessing performance on tasks that demand cognitive skills tends to be more difficult due to the combination of activities involved. For example, among train drivers, the cognitive skills demanded include situation assessment, vigilance, decision-making, risk assessment, fatigue management and the development of a joint mental model (Cox et al, 2003; Darwent et al, 2008; Jay et al, 2008; Klockner and Toft, 2018). New approaches to the assessment of cognitive skills need to be capable of quickly and accurately discerning the specific skill set engaged so that interventions can be targeted, thereby managing the costs of retraining and enabling genuine improvements in performance.…”

Section: Future Workforce Demandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second approach to understanding complex interactions both within and between organisations is a reactive strategy that normally involves a comprehensive evaluation of the precursors to an adverse event (Klockner and Toft, 2018; Lee and Chung, 2018; Underwood and Waterson, 2014). This approach is based on the view that an adverse event is driven by a root cause and that the relationship is both cumulative and linear.…”

Section: Organisational Factors Individual Differences and Technomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Optimising the future of technology in organisations: A human factors perspective

Wiggins

Auton

Bayl-Smith³

et al. 2020

Australian Journal of Management

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New technologies are critical for sustained economic growth in contemporary organisations. However, the success of new technologies is dependent upon the relationship with users. Using a human factors framework, this article examines contemporary approaches to the assessment of human–technology interactions, highlighting the lack of integration and the need for a comprehensive approach that considers user contributions, including skills, capabilities and dispositions; technological contributions, including dependencies, reliability, complexity, and accuracy; and organisational contributions through training assessment, organisational climate and culture, and leadership. The successful integration of new technologies in the workplace is likely to lead to a more productive and enjoyable interaction for employees and customers, together with systems that are more resilient to the complexities and threats that are likely to emerge in the future work environment. JEL Classification: J28, L15, D23, D24

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Section: Future Workforce Demandsmentioning

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Section: Organisational Factors Individual Differences and Technomentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimising the future of technology in organisations: A human factors perspective

Wiggins

Auton

Bayl-Smith³

et al. 2020

Australian Journal of Management

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“…Belmonte et al [9] presented an application of functional resonance accident models (FRAM) for the safety analysis. Klockner & Toft [10] was interested in using the CFF to model the previously unseen non-linear network interactions. Yu et al [11] proposed the Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method -Railway Accidents (CREAM-RAs) taxonomy framework was proposed to classify human, technology, and organization factors in railway accidents.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessment of Railway Transport Safety in Bangladesh: A Before-After Study of COVID-19 Case

Huq¹,

Tasin²,

Jannat³

2021

International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering

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The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh is part of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019, caused by extreme acute respiratory syndrome, coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In March 2020, the virus was reported as having spread to Bangladesh and the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), announced the first 3 (three) identified cases on 8 March 2020. In order to protect the population and to prevent the outbreak of novel coronavirus-2, the government implemented non-therapeutic measures such as declared "lockdown" throughout the nation from March 26, 2020 to May 30, 2020 and prepared some necessary steps to spread awareness to keep this syndrome away from them as Bangladesh being the second most affected country in South Asia, after India. Due to transport restrictions put in place to mitigate the pandemic, commercial road transport, both passenger and goods, has been severely impacted by COVID-19 in Bangladesh. The COVID-19 also contributed to the accident patterns and casualties of railway related accidents. An attempt has been made in this study to demonstrate the before-after effect of COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the variation in the perspective of railway transportation accidents. A comprehensive descriptive analysis has been conducted to find the major factors contributed to the railway accidents. The study also includes hotspot analysis using ArcGIS. The study has been conducted utilizing two years (2019-2020) of daily newspaper-based data which is classified by two categories: 299 days (May 14, 2019 to March 7, 2020) before and 299 days (March 8, 2020 to December 31, 2020 after the first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 8 in Bangladesh. The results reveal that railway accidents are significantly declining due to this pandemic situation. Finally, based on the findings, probable countermeasures to the guidelines for the prevention of certain incidents have been discussed with recommendations.

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“…The issue of the relationship of incidents and human factor is dealt with in the research of (Baysari, McIntosh, Wilson, 2008), (Madigan, Golightly, Madders, 2016), the view of engine drivers has been more closely addressed in the Swedish study (Forsberg, 2016). The socio-economic aspects of incidents on the railway infrastructure are the subject of the following research articles (Klockner, Toft, 2018) and (Read, Lenné, Moss, 2012). Latent and active errors leading to railway incidents are dealt with in the paper by (Zhou, Lei, 2018).…”

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Evaluation of Socio-economic Impacts of Incidents on the Railway Infrastructure

Hromádka¹,

Korytářová²,

Vítková³

et al. 2020

XV International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components. eBook of Proceedings

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Evaluation of the economic efficiency of investment projects in transport infrastructure in the Czech Republic is methodically based on the Departmental Methodology of the Ministry of Transport. Economic cash flows, generated in accordance with the CBA principles, are modelled within this methodology on the basis of the evaluation of socioeconomic impact of individual projects. In the case of the railway infrastructure constructions, the socioeconomic impacts used by the methodology do not include benefits associated with increasing safety and reliability of the railway infrastructure network due to new security systems implementation. Determination of socioeconomic impacts associated with specific types of incidents on the railway which are caused by insufficient railway infrastructure security and which could be eliminated by the implementation of the higher-level signaling equipment forms the subject of the research. The research is based on the analysis of a database of incidents occurring on the railway in the Czech Republic in the 2009-2018 period, which describes the basic impacts associated with a particular incident. Statistical data on the railway infrastructure is also used to determine the impact of incidents in addition to the database. The key outcomes of the research are the determination of methodological steps for the evaluation of the impacts of incidents on the railway and a case study for their verification. Future research will focus on making evaluation of the abovementioned benefits more detailed. Research outcomes will improve decision-making process on selection and financing of the projects related to railway infrastructure safety for their future implementation.

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Railway accidents and incidents: Complex socio-technical system accident modelling comes of age

Cited by 30 publications

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Optimising the future of technology in organisations: A human factors perspective

Optimising the future of technology in organisations: A human factors perspective

Assessment of Railway Transport Safety in Bangladesh: A Before-After Study of COVID-19 Case

Evaluation of Socio-economic Impacts of Incidents on the Railway Infrastructure

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