programme - Fourth International Rail Human Factors Conference

Tuesday 5 th March
Fourth International Rail Human Factors Conference
Date: 5-7 March 2013, London, United Kingdom
Venue: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, 103 Oxford Street, WC1A 1DU
Time Methven (200) Room 4 (50) Room 1 (30) Room 2 (30)
09:30-10:00 Conference opening
TBA
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10:00-10:45 Keynote address
Ron Hartman,
Executive Vice
President, Veolia
Transportation
Staying Focussed and
Staying Safe:
Research to combat
distraction among
drivers and the
resulting training
programme
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10:45-11:10 Break - - -
11:10-11:35 Level crossings and
bridges
Safety culture Human reliability Metro
What does it all
mean? Road user
comprehension of
signs and signals at
public road level
crossings
Dan Basacik, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Stephanie Cynk, Toni
Flint & John
McMorrow
Human error
prevention effect of
point and call check
used by railway
workers in Japan
Masayoshi
Shigemori, Railway
Technical Research
Institute, Japan
Co-presenters:
Ayanori Sato,
Takayuki Masuda &
Shigeru Haga
Railway Action
Reliability
Assessment, a
railway-specific
approach to human
error quantification
Huw Gibson, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Ann Mills, Stuart Smith
& Barry Kirwan
The implications of
automation on human
intervention at London
Underground
Jon Wackrow,
London
Underground
Co-presenters:
Anthony Slamen

11:35-12:00 Decision-making at
level crossings –
should a decision
point marker be
provided?
Claire Turner, ERM
Co-presenters:
Alastair McKenzie
Kerr, Ann Mills, John
McMorrow & Emma
Lowe
12:00-12:25 Checking for trains: An
on-road study of what
drivers actually do at
level crossings
Michael Lenné,
Monash University
Co-presenters:
Vanessa Beanland,
Paul M. Salmon,
Ashleigh Filtness &
Neville A. Stanton
12:25-12:50 Can you tame a level
crossing? Results
from a driving
simulator based
paradigm
Michael Cale, Emek
Yezreel Academic
College
Co-presenters:
Amos Gellert, Nathaly
Katz & Werner
Sommer
Our effort in
developing a safety
culture –
establishment of
safety management
system on the basis of
risk assessment
Yasuyuki Mito, West
Japan Railway
Company
Study of effective
praise in train driver’s
workplace
Tomoko Horishita,
West Japan Railway
Company
Co-presenters:
Kazuho Yamaura &
Masaki Kanayama
Study of train drivers’
work motivation and
its relationship to
organisational factors
in a Japanese railway
company
Hidenori Fujino,
West Japan Railway
Company
Co-presenters:
Tomoko Horishita,
Tomoyuki Sonoda &
Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
Human Factors in
railway vehicle axle
inspection
Martin Stout, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Huw Gibson, Ken
Timmis & Steve Mills
The retrospective use
of accimaps in the
graphical
representation of rail
incidents
Aaisha Farooqi,
University of
Nottingham &
Network Rail
Co-presenters:
Brendan Ryan & John
Wilson
A new approach for
the assessment of
human reliability in
German railway risk
assessments
Birgit Milius,
TU Braunschweig
The Observatron:
Collecting task time
data using a bespoke
software application
Paul Salkeld, London
Underground
Human Factors for the
London Underground
stations upgrade
programme
Nigel Scard, London
Underground
Co-presenters:
George Brown
Meeting the
challenges of human
factors integration in a
multi-stage project to
re-signal and recontrol
a metro
Suzanne Heape,
Invensys Rail
12:50-13:45 Lunch - - -
13:45-14:10 Level crossings and Safety culture (cont) Human reliability Metro (cont)
bridges (cont)
(cont)
An innovative
information gathering
and data analysis
platform for railway
level crossing safety
data
Christian Wullems,
CRC for Rail
Innovation
Co-presenters:
Yvonne Toft & Geoff
Dell
Safety Culture and
Corporate Culture:
Alignment,
integrations and
embedding through a
behavioural framework
Trudi Farrington-
Darby, Network Rail
Co-presenters:
Paul Taylor
The influence of
selecting a specific
sample of hazardous
events on the
evaluation of the train
driver's reliability
Tobias Lindner,
TU Braunschweig
Applying current alarm
management
guidance for a 21 st
century railway
James Murphy,
Tubelines Ltd
Co-presenters:
Mark Lowten & Ken
Hope

14:10-14:35 Reducing the number
and impact of railway
underline bridge
strikes
Martin Stout, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Dan Basacik
14:35-15:00 Understanding key
human factors risks at
level crossing: 3 case
studies addressing 3
different user
behaviour risks
Emma Lowe,
Network Rail
15:00-15:25 Level crossings
discussion
Changing Safety
Culture: Learning the
lessons of installation
and implementation
through the
introduction of Life
Saving Rules
Trudi Farrington-
Darby, Network Rail
Co-presenters:
Paul Taylor & Ian
Boardman
Impact evaluations of
safety culture pilot
demonstrations in the
US rail industry
influence industrywide
change
Stephen Popkin,
Volpe Centre
Safety culture
discussion
Modelling Human-
Machine Interaction
for the assessment of
human reliability
Daniel Schwencke,
German Aerospace
Center
Co-presenters:
Jan Grippenkoven &
Karsten Lemmer
Humanscan: A
software solution
towards the
management of
human reliability in the
rail industry
Carmen Garcia, ESM
research Institute
into Safety & Human
Factors
Co-presenters:
Baltasar Gil & Pilar
Calvo Holgado
A Human
Performance
Operational Railway
Index to estimate
operators’ error
probability
Miltos Kyriakidis,
Imperial College
London
Co-presenters:
Arnab Majumdar, &
Washington Y.
Ochieng
15:25-15:45 Break - - -
Fitting a Jubilee line
shaped peg into a
Northern line shaped
hole
Lisa Kelly, Thales
Developing a tram
driver route learning
simulator for
Manchester’s
Metrolink trams
Ian Rowe, Ian Rowe
Associates Ltd
Amsterdam metro cab
design: Ergonomics in
the design, verification
and validation process
Richard van der
Weide, Intergo BV
Co-presenters:
Henk F.L. Frieling,
François Malle &
Denis Miglianico

15:45-16:10 Fatigue
Work patterns of
freight drivers and
recovery from shift
work
Karen Robertson,
QinetiQ
Co-presenters:
Michael B. Spencer,
Alison McGuffog,
Sarah Hesketh & Ann
Mills
16:10-16:35 Fatigue, anxiety, and
performance for oncall
safety critical
decision makers in rail
maintenance – a diary
study
Nuno Cebola,
Network Rail
Co-presenters:
David Golightly, John
Wilson & Emma Lowe
16:35-17:00 Rail staff fatigue – the
GB regulator’s
perspective on
managing the risks
Jeremy Mawhood,
ORR
Co-presenters:
Claire Dickinson
17:00-17:25 Can you know if
someone is too tired to
drive safely?
Michael Cale, Emek
Yezreel Academic
College
Co-presenters:
Iris Haimov,
Yoel Shafran,
Orna Tzischinsky
Mental workload and
situation awareness
Prediction of mental
workload of monitoring
tasks
Colete Weeda,
Intergo BV
Co-presenters:
Melcher Zeilstra
Subjective mental
workload of Dutch
train dispatchers:
validation of IWS in a
practical setting
Melcher Zeilstra,
Intergo BV
Co-presenters:
Marit Wilms
Mental workload and
situations awareness
discussion
Mental workload and
situations awareness
discussion
18:00 Drinks reception – CBI Conference Centre
Human reliability
(cont)
WORKSHOP: Railway
Action Reliability
Assessment
Huw Gibson, RSSB
WORKSHOP: Railway
Action Reliability
Assessment
Huw Gibson, RSSB
WORKSHOP: Railway
Action Reliability
Assessment
Huw Gibson, RSSB
WORKSHOP: Railway
Action Reliability
Assessment
Huw Gibson, RSSB
Metro (cont)
Reflections on the
progress and lessons
learnt from
implementing human
factors in MTR
corporation operations
division
Karen Priestley,
Lloyds Register
(Asia) Ltd
Co-presenters:
Zoe Tse
Managing the risks
associated with a
basic yet critical
maintenance
operation in the Paris
Metro workshops
Fabrice Jubert,
RATP
Co-presenters:
Jean-Pierre Bert
Safety assessment of
CCTV for platform
interface tasks-
Sydney Suburban
Trains
Paul Traub, Paul
Traub Associates
Co-presenters:
Glenn Fraser

Wednesday 6 th March
Time Methven (200) Room 4 (50) Room 1&2 (60)
08:45-09:30 Keynote address
- -
Christian Neveu, SNCF and
UIC
Safety: Progress through inthe-field
experience
09:35-10:00 Traffic management
‘He’s not from around here!’
The significance of local
knowledge
Laura Pickup, University of
Nottingham
Co-presenters:
Nora Balfe, Emma Lowe &
John Wilson
10:00-10:25 A sociotechnical comparison of
automated traffic control
between GB and Sweden
David Golightly, University
of Nottingham
Co-presenters:
Arne Andersson,
Nastaran Dadashi,
Bengt Sandblad,
Sarah Sharples,
Simon Tschirner
10:25-10:50 Dispatching, planning,
passenger support, multi-actor
systems and organizational
structures in the Netherlands
railways (NS)
Rene J. Jorna, University of
Groningen
Co-presenters:
Neils R. Faber
10:50-11:15 Analysis of collaboration
applied to train drivers and
train traffic controllers in
Sweden
Simon Tschirner, University
of Uppsala
Co-presenters:
Bengt Sandblad
Arne W. Andersson
Peter Hellström
Gunnika Isaksson-Lutteman
Track work
Applying lean techniques to
analyse railway possession
and isolation authorisation to
identify opportunities for more
effective procedures
Wendy Garner, Coventry
University
Co-presenters:
Shelley Stiles
Perceptions of accident risk
among on-track machine
workers: An interview study
James Morgan, Sheffield
Hallam university
Co-presenters:
Rachel Abbott, Penny Furness
& Stuart Webster-Spriggs
Designing mobile user
experiences: disruptive
innovation in railway asset
information
Richard Bye, Network Rail
Hand held terminal usability for
trackside operations
Ged Morrisroe, CCD Design
& Ergonomics Ltd
Co-presenters:
Mike Stearn
11:15-11:40 Break - -
Passengers and stations
Using technology to improve the
efficient use of rail stations
Karen Wright, Mott MacDonald
Co-presenters:
Elaine Thompson, Tara Kazi,
Michael Woods & Rick
Blakemore
An evaluation of personal
security interventions at railway
stations
Michelle Rogerson, University
of Huddersfield
Co-presenters:
Richard Batley, John Nellthorp &
Mark Wardman
Station wayfinding - practical
experience and the way forward
David Watts, CCD Design &
Ergonomics Ltd
Co-presenters:
Adam Parkes, Nicola Hayden-
Smith & Mike Stearn
High Speed 2 - design led by the
passenger experience
David Watts, CCD Design &
Ergonomics Ltd
Co-presenters:
Neha Gupta, Theresa Clarke &
Peter Nock

11:40-12:05 Traffic management (cont)
Requirements elicitation for
disruption management
support
Nastaran Dadashi,
University of Nottingham
Co-presenters:
David Golightly & Sarah
Sharples
12:05-12:30 Signaller information use in
traffic regulation decisions
Christopher Patrick,
University of Nottingham &
Network Rail
Co-presenters:
Nora Balfe, John R. Wilson &
Robert Houghton
12:30-12:55 The future of signaller
workload assessments in an
automated world
Nicola Hayden-Smith, CCD
Design & Ergonomics Ltd
Track work (cont)
Rail Engineering Projects –
Practical challenges to human
factors integration (and why a
crowbar is sometimes handy)
Fiona Kenvyn, Human
Factors Consultant
WORKSHOP: Feasibility study
for optimisation of possession
authorisation requirements
through the use of lean
systems design and
communication technologies
Wendy Garner & Shelley
Stiles
WORKSHOP: Feasibility study
for optimisation of possession
authorisation requirements
through the use of lean
systems design and
communication technologies
Wendy Garner & Shelley
Stiles
Passengers and stations
(cont)
Improving station and train
dispatch risk assessment
Toni Flint, RSSB
Guidelines for the design and
evaluation of railway warning
signs for young children
Alice Monk, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Patrick Waterson
The whole passenger journey:
supporting way finding and train
boarding
Kate Moncrieff, Network Rail
Co-presenters:
Anthony Coplestone
12:55-13:45 Lunch - -
Technical Visits – London Underground training centre and Victoria Line Service Control Centre
13:45-14:10 Traffic management (cont)
Using graphical support tools
to encourage active planning
at stations
Rebecca Charles, Network
Rail
Co-presenters:
Nora Balfe, John R. Wilson,
Sarah Sharples & Mike Carey
Evaluation
Developing methodology in
RESTRAIL for the preliminary
evaluation of preventative
measures for railway suicide
and trespass
Brendan Ryan, University of
Nottingham
Co-presenters:
Veli-Pekka Kallberg
HF integration
Systems approaches in
ergonomics/human factors
applied within rail systems
engineering
John Wilson, University of
Nottingham & Network Rail

14:10-14:35 Human error analysis of
Network Controller activities
Fiona Kenvyn, Human
Factors Consultant
Co-presenters:
Stuart Dickinson
14:35-15:00 HF and Traffic Management
implementation - Danish and
UK experiences
Nicola Hayden-Smith, CCD
Design & Ergonomics Ltd
Co-presenters:
Ged Morrisroe
15:00-15:25 Where is Traffic Management
driving us?
Ged Morrisroe, CCD Design
& Ergonomics Ltd
The challenge of evaluating a
rail suicide prevention
programme
Dione Hills, Tavistock
Institute of Human Relations
Preliminary evaluation for the
selection of measures against
suicide and trespassing on the
tracks: lessons learnt from the
RestRail Project
Jean-Marie Burkhardt,
Institut Francais des
Sciences et Technologies
des Transports, de
l'Aménagement et des
Réseaux
Humans as an asset in a
system. Consideration on the
contribution of humans to
system performance and system
safety
Melcher Zeilstra, Intergo BV
Co-presenters:
Richard van der Weide
Organisational and human
aspects of safety at border
crossings
Virginie Papillaut, UIC
Co-presenters:
Christian Neveu
Evaluation discussion On-call scheduling in rail
maintenance - diary research
challenges in an industrial
context
Nuno Cebola, Network Rail
Co-presenters:
David Golightly, John Wilson &
Emma Lowe
15:25-15:50 Break - -
15:50-16:15 Traffic management
Incident investigation Rules and standards
Control centres – successes
and challenges
Mike Carey, Network Rail
16:15-16:40 Open discussion/ speaker
Q&A
Incident Factor Classification
System
Huw Gibson, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Stuart Smith, Emma Lowe,
Ann Mills, Greg Morse & Stuart
Carpenter
Developing an effective
corrective action process:
Lessons learned from
operating a confidential close
call reporting system
Jordan Multer, Volpe Center
Co-presenters:
Joyce Ranney, Julie Hile &
Thomas Raslear
Evaluation of the New Approach
rulebook
Ann Mills, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Sian Evans, Huw Gibson & Alice
Monk
‘We were doing this before
human factors was invented’ –
signals standards from a usercentred
perspective
Toni Flint, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Richard Barrow

16:40-17:05 Human factors in a rail
accident investigation
Richard van der Weide,
Intergo BV
Co-presenters:
Ron Damstra
Current practices for the
assessment and acceptance of
risks related to human
interactions within the European
railways
Lena Kecklund, MTO Safety
Co-presenters:
Aino Obenius Mowitz & Maria
Antova
17:05-17:30 Common safety methods and
rail human factors: What a
practitioner should know
Conference dinner – The Paramount, Centre Point
Harry Blanchard, Lloyds
Register Scandpower
Co-presenters:
Gunhild Halvorsrud & Martina
Dahlström

Thursday 7 th March
Time Methven (200) Room 4 (50) Room 1&2 (60)
09:00-09:45 Keynote address
- -
09:50-10:15 Competence
Dr Stephen Popkin, Director
of Human Factors Research
and System Applications
Center of Innovation, Volpe
National Transportation
Systems Center
An Interdepartmental Approach
to Safety: How the U.S
Department of Transportation
is Supporting Railroad
Operational Safety
Non-technical skills for rail:
Development, piloting,
evaluation, and implementation
of courses for front-line staff
and managers
Steve Pugh, Northern Rail
Co-presenters:
Kate Bonsall-Clarke
10:15-10:40 The introduction of nontechnical
skills into a train
driver competence
management system
Andrew Russell, Rail
Training International
Co-presenters:
Steve Bailey & Andy Moor
10:40-11:05 Non-Technical Skills in Action:
integrating non-technical skills
into the management of front
line safety critical roles
Emma Lowe, Network Rail
Resilience & Emergency
Proposition of an
organisational resilience
assessment framework
dedicated to railway traffic
management
Eric Rigaud, Mines Paristech
- CRC
Co-presenters:
Christian Neveu, Stella
Duvenci-Langa, Marie Noelle
Obrist & Sandrine Rigaud
A study of evacuation guidance
in earthquake and tsunami
disaster
Tomoko Yamakawa, East
Japan Railway Company
Safety and evacuations: a risk
assessment of the potential
use of bidirectional video
communication in safe rooms
Sarah Marie Brotnov,
Norwegian National Railway
Association
Co-presenters:
Anne-Marie Braaten & Sasan
Zarghooni
11:05-11:30 Break -
ERTMS
A comparative cognitive task
analysis of the different forms
of driving in the UK rail system
Arzoo Buksh, University of
Nottingham & Network Rail
Co-presenters:
Sarah Sharples, John Wilson
Anthony Coplestone & Ged
Morrisroe
Bridging the gap between
technology and adoption: a
case study
Tara Kazi, Mott MacDonald
Co-presenters:
Elaine Thompson & Anita Scott
A method for assessing
drivability for ETCS cab retrofit
Harry Blanchard, Lloyds
Register Scandpower

11:30-11:55 Competence
The rail resource management
guidelines: Post
implementation review and
future directions
Jennifer Alcock, Independent
Transport Safety Regulator,
New South Wales
Co-presenters:
Barbara Klampfer
11:55-12:20 Achieving compliance through
people: Training supervisors to
tackle procedural noncompliance
Paul Leach, Greenstreet
Berman Ltd
Co-presenters:
Rebecca Canham & Jonathan
Berman
12:20-12:45 Searching for safe drivers:
Challenges in making
decisions about test use in
safety critical industries
Siân Evans, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Charles Johnson & Toni Flint
MSD and cab design
Musculoskeletal disorder risk
assessment tool for train
drivers
Anita Scott, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Martin Stout
A driver-centred driver’s safety
device
David Hitchcock, David
Hitchcock Ltd
Co-presenters:
Colin Morris & Andy Taylor
Static anthropometry measures
of tram drivers in B&H
important for tram control panel
design
Davor Sumpor, University of
Zagreb
Co-presenters:
Zdravko Toš & Nedžad
Musabašić
12:45-13:35 Lunch -
13:35-14:00 Competence
DAS and automation
Human Factors Awareness
Training for Incident
Investigators: What impact has
it had three years later?
Siân Evans, RSSB
14:00-14:25 The development of a riskbased
training needs analysis
methodology and tool
Priya Shah, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Andrew Taylor & Kate Bonsall-
Clarke
Human factor challenges in the
development of a driver
advisory system for regional
passenger trains
Thomas Albrecht,
Technische Universität
Dresden
Automation effects in train
driving with train protection
systems –assessing person-
and task-related factors
Sonja Giesemann, German
Aerospace Center
ERTMS
Investigating the effects of the
ERTMS driver machine
interface on train driver
behaviour and railway safety
Lena Kecklund, MTO Safety
Co-presenters:
Anders Lindgren Walter &
Emma Nordlöf
Human factors challenges in
the East Side Fjernbane signal
renewal programme
Ged Morrisroe, CCD Design
& Ergonomics Ltd
Co-presenters:
Mike Stearn & Simon MacMull
ERTMS Discussion

14:25-14:50 Good Practice Guide on
Competence Development
Priya Shah, RSSB
Co-presenters:
Kate Bonsall-Clarke & Andrew
Taylor
14:50-15:15 Raising awareness of risk
perception: When, how, who
Pilar Calvo, ESM research
Institute into Safety & Human
Factors
Co-presenters:
Carmen García Suárez &
Baltasar Gil de Egea
Designing train driver advisory
systems for situation
awareness
Simon Tschirner, Uppsala
University
Co-presenters:
Arne W Andersson & Bengt
Sandblad
The state of the information
environment of the crew’s
cabin according to progress of
systematization
Masato Kuratani, East Japan
Railway Company
15:15-15:30 Close of conference - -