Methods are the processes research and development teams follow to create tools for operators. They typically follow three phases.

Research--Learn about rail operations, how operators do their work, what goals they need to...

Learn how work is actually done in real circumstances. 

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Find best arrangement of elements in a design

Link Analysis (LA) can be used to arrange the location of equipment and individuals in a workplace, and to arrange controls and displays on a console based on how often...

Understand how work is done, and describe it in terms of flow, time, or elements. 

Functional Analysis is an umbrella term for a variety of methods that can be used early in the system development process (Nemeth, 2004)....