This paper investigates determinants of crew and passenger injuries in passenger vessel accidents. Crew and passenger injury equations are estimated for ferry, ocean cruise, and river cruise vessel accidents, utilizing detailed data of individual vessel accidents that were investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard during the time period 2001-2008. The estimation results provide empirical evidence (f...

The progressive integration of automation technologies in commercial transport aircraft flight decks -the “glass cockpit” -has had a major, and generally positive, impact on flight crew operations. Flight deck automation has provided significant benefits, such as economic efficiency, increased precision and safety, and enhanced functionality within the crew interface. These enhancements, howeve...

the late detection of the kick (the entrance of underground fluids into oil wells) leads to oil wellblowouts. it causes human life loss and imposes a great deal of expenses on the petroleum industry.this paper presents the application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system designed for an earlierkick detection using measurable drilling parameters. in order to generate the initial fuzzy infere...

This paper proposes a heuristic solution approach for solving multipledepot integrated vehicle and crew scheduling problem. The basic idea of the method is to first solve independent vehicle and crew scheduling problems separately, and then identify sequences of trips presented in both solutions. Afterwards, the model size is reduced by fixing such sequences before solving the actual multiple-d...

I t pays to have a backup project in case your main research stalls. That's what Alan Hall (now at University College London) and colleagues learned when they set aside their studies on the protein ras and switched to its cousin rho. Their work (starting with Paterson et al., 1990) revealed that rho and related proteins were key regulators of the cell's actin cytoskeleton, and it set the stage ...

FRISCH, G. D., and L. A. D'AUI.ERIO. Bioman—An improved occupant-crew station compliance modeling system. Aviat. Space Environ. Med. 51 (2): 160-167, 1980. The need to visualize and interpret liuman body movement data from experiments and simulations lias led to the development of a computerized, three-dimensional representation of the human body and crew station. While conventional charts and ...

Within the airline industry’s complex operational environment, any disturbance to normal operations has dramatic impact, and usually imposes high additional costs. Because of irregular events during dayto-day operations, airline crew schedules can rarely be operated as planned. When disruptions occur, crew schedules are affected due to the resulting infeasible flight schedule and improper assig...

Large, real-time systems such as Navy ships, nuclear power plants, airplanes, etc. require crews of human operators to control them. This paper documents the concept and design evolution of a visualization method for a crew workload-monitoring tool. Crew leaders and trainers, devisers of Navy tactics, techniques, and procedures, and human factors designers of crew-served systems can use this vi...

Railway crew scheduling problem is the process of allocating train services to the crew duties based on the published train timetable while satisfying operational and contractual requirements. The problem is restricted by many constraints and it belongs to the class of NPhard. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model for railway crew scheduling with the aim of minimising the number of cre...