Designing simulator tools for rail research: The case study of a train driving microworld

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 445-454

  Naweed, A ^a   Hockey, G R J ^a   Clarke, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied research; Human factors; Information design; Microworld simulation; Train driving

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DRIVER TRAINING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

A-TRAIN; APPLIED RESEARCH; COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEMS; DESIGN PROCESS; ENVIRONMENT SIMULATORS; INFORMATION DESIGN; INFORMATION DISPLAY; MICROWORLD; PASSENGER TRAIN; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORY DEVELOPMENT; TRAIN DRIVING; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

PASSENGER CARS;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRIVER; MICROENVIRONMENT; RAILWAY; SIMULATOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAIN DRIVING;

EID: 84872425020     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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