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Examples of Well-Designed Process & Technologies
Effective design supports operator attention demandsEffective design matches product features with user needs. Attentional demands on operators require products that make important information easy to locate and recognize. Recent cab designs have integrated multiple electronic...
User Centered Design
What is user-centered design?
User-centered design is a process to design tools that take user needs and requirements into account. It includes steps to identify these needs and requirements through interviews and/or observations of the target user. Some key parts...
HSI Topic: Training
Training is another HSI domain that intersects with Human Factors Engineering and Safety.
Training is any activity that results in enabling users, operators, maintainers, leaders and support personnel, to acquire, gain or enhance knowledge, skills, and concurrently develops their...
HSI Topic: Safety
One HSI domain that intersects with Human Factors Engineering is Safety.
Safety factors consist of those system design characteristics that serve to minimize the potential for mishaps causing death or injury to operators, maintainers and supporters or threaten the survival and/or...
Human Factors Engineering
One domain of HSI that offers considerable potential to assist railroads in understanding and applying knowledge related to human performance is Human Factors Engineering (HFE).
“Human Factors Engineering (HFE) is the discipline of applying what is known about human...
Human Systems Integration
What is HSI? And why does it matter to the rail industry?The rail industry is evolving rapidly. Among the changes facing the industry is the introduction of new technology in the locomotive cab, such as Positive Train Control (PTC), intended to increase safety and minimize...
Mixed Freight and Higher-Speed Passenger Trains: Framework for Superelevation Design
As the demand for higher-speed passenger trains increases, the disparity between freight and passenger operations also increases. On mixed-use rail corridors, the result is a bi-modal distribution of train speeds that complicates design of curve superelevation. To aid in making informed curve...Training for FRA Grants (Grantees)
Training for FRA GrantsUnder the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Office of Railroad Policy and Development (RPD), the Program Delivery Office (RPD-10) is responsible for federal investment and assistance to the rail industry. RPD-10 plays an integral role in the implementation of...