The role of situation awareness for understanding signalling and control in rail operations

Golightly, David; Wilson, John R.; Lowe, Emma; Sharples, Sarah

doi:10.1080/14639220903009961

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“…These changes have implications not only at a cognitive level for factors such as workload [1] and situation awareness (SA) [2] but also at an organizational level, such as the shift away from traditional career progression, and the resulting implications for training and the development of expertise [3]. These developments have taken place in tandem with changes such as making the signallers more remote from their area of control.…”

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The Impact of Automation in Rail Signalling Operations

Sharples

Millen

Golightly

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:

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Rail signalling in the UK has seen a move from mechanical lever frame boxes to entry and exit signalling, and on through to situating signallers within a visual display unit-based workstation environment. These developments have taken place in tandem with changes such as making the signallers more remote from their area of control and the introduction of automation. These changes have implications not only at a cognitive level for factors such as workload and situation awareness , but also at an organizational level, such as the shift away from traditional career progression, and the resulting implications for training and the development of expertise. Understanding the implications of the signalling interface and the design implementation of automation is critical in facilitating more effective performance, safety, and signaller well-being, as well as informing the design of future rail control systems. Bainbridge articulated a set of ironies of automation -unintended consequences of introducing automation that may not be beneficial to the overall system effectiveness. The work presented in this article uses a structured observation approach to examine behavioural indicators of the impact of automation, either as a successful tool to support signalling or as a source of some or all of the ironies noted by Bainbridge. The work was conducted over a period of 2 years, to investigate the effect of levels of automation on rail signallers' activity and workload as part of the EPSRC Rail Research UK B6 programme.

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The Impact of Automation in Rail Signalling Operations

Sharples

Millen

Golightly

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:

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“…Other researchers are beginning to catch on and find the DSA concept, theory and methodology useful in their work, including, but not restricted to Bourbousson et al 2011;Fioratou et al 2010;Golightly et al 2013;Golightly et al 2010;Macquet and Stanton 2014;Patrick and Morgan 2010;Haavik 2011;Schulz et al 2013. The groundswell of evidence suggests that DSA has much to offer to our understanding of some of the complexities of socio-technical systems, and this is just the beginning.…”

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Distributed situation awareness

Stanton

2015

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

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“…To identify relevant job demands and job resources for inclusion in the shift diary, we analyzed job descriptions provided by the management of the control center and reviewed literature on signalers and controllers [e.g., [10][11][12][13]. In addition, we conducted semi-structured observational interviews based on the instrument for stress-related job analysis of computer work [14].…”

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Diary studies as a macro-ergonomic evaluation tool: Development of a shift diary and its application in ergonomic evaluations

Korunka

Prem

Kubicek

2012

2012 Southeast Asian Network of Ergonomics Societies Conference (SEANES)

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A diary instrument that could be used as a macroergonomic evaluation tool was developed and applied to evaluating monitoring tasks. In the first part of the study, the development of the instrument allowing the measurement of employee evaluations of perceived workload, attained performance, and strain is presented. Railway signalers and controllers filled out a diary every four hours over ten consecutive working shifts. Analysis of the objective workload conditions of the railway signalers and their relations to subjective workload perceptions in the diary indicates a satisfying validity of the measures. In the second part of the study, the newly developed diary instrument was used for macro-ergonomic evaluations in two other controller work places. Using the shift diary it was possible to answer practical macro-ergonomic questions that originated from the respective work situations. The strengths and possible limitations of the diary instrument are discussed.

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The role of situation awareness for understanding signalling and control in rail operations

Cited by 41 publications

References 36 publications

The Impact of Automation in Rail Signalling Operations

The Impact of Automation in Rail Signalling Operations

Distributed situation awareness

Diary studies as a macro-ergonomic evaluation tool: Development of a shift diary and its application in ergonomic evaluations

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