Development and assessment of taxonomy for performance-shaping factors for railway operations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2289, 2012, Pages 145-153

  Kyriakidis, Miltos ^a   Majumdar, Arnab ^a   Grote, Gudela ^b   Ochieng, Washington Y ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVER TRAINING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILS; TAXONOMIES; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

CURRENT LIMITATION; DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; NETWORK SAFETY; OPERATOR INFLUENCE; PERFORMANCE SHAPING FACTORS; RAILWAY OPERATIONS; RAILWAY SYSTEM; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS; TRAIN DRIVERS;

RAILROADS;

EID: 84869787021     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2289-19     Document Type: Article

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