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Federal agencies in the transportation sector offer HSI principles and guidelines related to issues of attention and distraction. These guidelines can provide directions for design of new tools and technology in the rail industry that support operator attention and minimize distraction...
Effective design matches product features with user needs. Attentional demands on operators require products that make important information easy to locate and recognize. Recent cab designs have integrated multiple electronic...
User-centered design is a process to design tools that take user needs and requirements into account. It includes steps to identify these needs and requirements through interviews and/or observations of the target user. Some key parts...
Training is another HSI domain that intersects with Human Factors Engineering and Safety.
Training is any activity that results in enabling users, operators, maintainers, leaders and support personnel, to acquire, gain or enhance knowledge, skills, and concurrently develops their...
One HSI domain that intersects with Human Factors Engineering is Safety.
Safety factors consist of those system design characteristics that serve to minimize the potential for mishaps causing death or injury to operators, maintainers and supporters or threaten the survival and/or...
One domain of HSI that offers considerable potential to assist railroads in understanding and applying knowledge related to human performance is Human Factors Engineering (HFE).
“Human Factors Engineering (HFE) is the discipline of applying what is known about human...
The rail industry is evolving rapidly. Among the changes facing the industry is the introduction of new technology in the locomotive cab, such as Positive Train Control (PTC), intended to increase safety and minimize...
Under the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Office of Railroad Policy and Development (RPD), the Program Delivery Office (RPD-10) is responsible for federal investment and assistance to the rail industry. RPD-10 plays an integral role in the implementation of...