Data based framework to identify the most significant performance shaping factors in railway operations

Safety Science

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-76

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

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident incident analysis; Railway Performance Shaping Factors taxonomy; Railway safety; Safety Management Systems; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DRIVER TRAINING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; QUALITY CONTROL; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; RAILROADS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSPORTATION;

INCIDENT ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PERFORMANCE SHAPING FACTORS; RAILWAY OPERATIONS; RAILWAY OPERATORS; RAILWAY SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATION AND OCCUPATION RELATED PHENOMENA; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; RAILWAY PERFORMANCE SHAPING FACTOR; SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84928745119     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2015.04.010     Document Type: Article

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