Shared situation awareness as a contributor to high reliability performance in railroad operations

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 967-987

  Roth, Emilie M ^a,d   Multer, Jordan ^b,d   Raslear, Thomas ^c,d  

^a Roth Cognitive Engineering   (United States)

^b Volpe National Transportation Systems Center   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^d MS 20 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive field studies; Cognitive task analysis; Distributed decision making; Human reliability; Naturalistic decision making; Railroads; Situation awareness; Team cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745940184     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606065705     Document Type: Article

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