Developing a Rail Ergonomics Questionnaire (REQUEST)

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 216-229

  Ryan, Brendan ^a   Wilson, John R ^a,b   Sharples, Sarah ^a   Morrisroe, Ged ^c   Clarke, Theresa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NETWORK RAIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Questionnaire design; Rail human factors; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAILROADS; RAILS; RELIABILITY;

LARGE POPULATION; NATIONAL SURVEYS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN; RAIL HUMAN FACTORS; RESPONSE RATE; SAMPLE SIZES; TARGET GROUP;

SURVEYS;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAIL ERGONOMICS QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 56949098293     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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