Post-Trip Mind-Wandering Assessment: A Scale and Protocol for Evaluating Train Driver Focus Across Multiple Journey Phases

In professional driving, maintaining alertness throughout the journey can be challenging. Despite efforts to address decreased alertness, there is no agreed method to investigate mind-wandering in transportation. Trigger-based data collection methods are most common, but can influence participants’ mental condition, reducing mind-wandering occurrences. Besides, in real-life test rides it is...