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The monitoring of vigilance in locomotive engineers

Last updated on 14 August 2014 4:59

About three out of four train collisions and derailments (other than at level crossings) have been found to be due to deficiencies in operator performance. Although the evidence regarding the precise nature of these deficiencies is unclear, monotony and frequently low task demands together with adverse organismic and workplace conditions...

Author(s): Wilde Gerald J.S.;Stinson John F.

Organisation(s): Department of Psychology, Queen' ; s University ;

1983

Canada

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