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The role of situation awareness for understanding signalling and control in rail operations

Last updated on 14 August 2014 4:59

Rail signalling is typical of a complex control task where situation awareness (SA) has been thought to play a significant role. Taking into account the main theoretical positions, and through reviewing cognitive accounts of signalling, it is apparent that SA is a useful construct in describing and understanding rail signalling...

Author(s): Golightly David;Wilson John R.;Lowe Emma;Sharples Sarah

Organisation(s): Centre for Rail Human Factors, Human Factors Research Group, Faculty of Engineering , University of Nottingham ; Network Rail ;

2009

United Kingdom

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