Causes, consequences and countermeasures to driver fatigue in the rail industry: The train driver perspective

Solving the Train Driver Recovery Problem

Changes in the train schedule affect the train driver duties. If a train is cancelled or delayed, the driver assigned to the train task might not be able to reach the station of his next train departure in time. In practice, if a driver is not available for the train departure, another driver, for instance, a reserve, is assigned to the task. If there are no drivers available to cover the task ...

Bus Drivers Working Hours and the Relationship to Driver Fatigue

Bus drivers often have irregular working hours like split shifts and their work involve high levels of stress. These factors can lead to severe sleepiness and dangerous driving. The purpose of this study is to highlight how split shifts affect sleepiness and performance during afternoon drive. The study is an experiment on real road with an equipped bus driven by professional bus drivers. The s...

Analysing and modelling train driver performance.

Arguments for the importance of contextual factors in understanding human performance have been made extremely persuasively in the context of the process control industries. This paper puts these arguments into the context of the train driving task, drawing on an extensive analysis of driver performance with the Automatic Warning System (AWS). The paper summarises a number of constructs from ap...

Aspects of Train Driver Scheduling Problems

Actor-agent application for train driver rescheduling

This paper describes the design, implementation, visualizations, results and lessons learned of a novel real-world socio-technical research system for the purpose of rescheduling train drivers in the event of disruptions. The research system is structured according to the Actor-Agent paradigm: here agents assist in rescheduling tasks of train drivers. Coordination between agents is based on a t...