Dr BRENDAN RYAN's Outputs (33)

Effectively Communicating Information and Uncertainty from Fuzzy Sets, Why and How (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, Y., Wagner, C., Ryan, B., Pekaslan, D., & Kreinovich, V. (2025, July). Effectively Communicating Information and Uncertainty from Fuzzy Sets, Why and How. Presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Reims, France

Fuzzy Sets (FSs) are widely used in real-world applications due to their ability to model the inherent uncertainty in human perceptions and knowledge. While valuable, the complexity of FSs often poses challenges in interpretation and communication fo... Read More about Effectively Communicating Information and Uncertainty from Fuzzy Sets, Why and How.

PRevention Intervention and Support in Mental health for people with aphasia (Aphasia PRISM): protocol and mixed methods analysis plan for two feasibility studies (2024)
Journal Article
Baker, C., Rose, M. L., Wong, D., Ryan, B., Thomas, S., Cadilhac, D., & Kneebone, I. (in press). PRevention Intervention and Support in Mental health for people with aphasia (Aphasia PRISM): protocol and mixed methods analysis plan for two feasibility studies. Discover Psychology, 4(1), Article 153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44202-024-00210-w

Background People with aphasia commonly experience depression and anxiety. The individual therapy program, Aphasia PRevention Intervention and Support in Mental health (Aphasia PRISM) offers low intensity psychotherapeutic interventions using communi... Read More about PRevention Intervention and Support in Mental health for people with aphasia (Aphasia PRISM): protocol and mixed methods analysis plan for two feasibility studies.

Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, B., Dadashi, N., & Gibbs, K. (2025). Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work. Industrial Health, 63(2), 108-128. https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2023-0196

Societal demands mean that many companies operate throughout the day to provide services. The impact of night work on long-term health is not clear, but there is sufficient evidence for closer monitoring of this as a concern and industry is not sure... Read More about Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work.

Interval Agreement Weighted Average - Sensitivity to Data Set Features (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, Y., Wagner, C., Ryan, B., Pekaslan, D., & Navarro, J. (2024, June). Interval Agreement Weighted Average - Sensitivity to Data Set Features. Presented at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Yokohama, Japan

The growing use of intervals in fields like survey analysis necessitates effective aggregation methods that can summarize and represent such uncertain data representations. The Interval Agreement Approach (IAA) addresses this by aggregating interval... Read More about Interval Agreement Weighted Average - Sensitivity to Data Set Features.

A field evaluation of an in-ground lighting intervention for safety at a road crossing (2024)
Journal Article
Hallewell, M., Dadashi, N., & Ryan, B. (2024). A field evaluation of an in-ground lighting intervention for safety at a road crossing. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 101, 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.12.017

There are limited numbers of naturalistic studies of behaviours in response to safety interventions, such as novel lighting products at road crossings. The study used a theory-based approach to evaluate behavioural responses to a novel, ground-mounte... Read More about A field evaluation of an in-ground lighting intervention for safety at a road crossing.

Interviews with rail industry leaders about systems thinking in the management of organisational change and risk management (2023)
Journal Article
Nolan-McSweeney, M., Ryan, B., & Cobb, S. (2023). Interviews with rail industry leaders about systems thinking in the management of organisational change and risk management. Safety Science, 164, Article 106168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106168

The rail industry in Great Britain has faced unprecedented demand for its services in the past decade, whilst addressing technological transformation, and with multiple objectives in relation to safety and performance. Systems theories seems to offer... Read More about Interviews with rail industry leaders about systems thinking in the management of organisational change and risk management.

Safety and performance on the railways: Selected papers from the 7th International Rail Human Factors Conference (2023)
Book
Golightly, D., Gibson, H., Ryan, B., & Young, M. S. (2023). D. Golightly, H. Gibson, B. Ryan, & M. S. Young (Eds.). Safety and performance on the railways: Selected papers from the 7th International Rail Human Factors Conference. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2023.103978

Conceptualising innovative lighting interventions for suicide, trespass and risky behaviour on the railway (2022)
Journal Article
Hallewell, M. J., Ryan, B., Hughes, N., & Coad, N. (2023). Conceptualising innovative lighting interventions for suicide, trespass and risky behaviour on the railway. Lighting Research and Technology, 55(1), 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/14771535221135226

Three behaviour types – suicide, trespass and risky behaviours, which can result in entry to railway tracks – present an ongoing challenge to the rail industry for fatality prevention. Many preventative interventions exist, operating at different sta... Read More about Conceptualising innovative lighting interventions for suicide, trespass and risky behaviour on the railway.

Human, Organisational and Societal Factors in Robotic Rail Infrastructure Maintenance (2022)
Journal Article
Golightly, D., Chan-Pensley, J., Dadashi, N., Jundi, S., Ryan, B., & Hall, A. (2022). Human, Organisational and Societal Factors in Robotic Rail Infrastructure Maintenance. Sustainability, 14(4), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042123

Robotics are set to play a significant role in the maintenance of rail infrastructure. However, the introduction of robotics in this environment requires new ways of working for individuals, teams and organisations and needs to reflect societal attit... Read More about Human, Organisational and Societal Factors in Robotic Rail Infrastructure Maintenance.

Using expert perspectives to explore factors affecting choice of methods in safety analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Farooqi, A., Ryan, B., & Cobb, S. (2022). Using expert perspectives to explore factors affecting choice of methods in safety analysis. Safety Science, 146, Article 105571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105571

Many methods have been developed to understand and improve system safety. Previous research has indicated that a 'research-practice gap' exists in use of methods, where systemic methods are not adopted in practice. This study extends this research, b... Read More about Using expert perspectives to explore factors affecting choice of methods in safety analysis.

Field testing two innovative lighting interventions to influence waiting behaviours and movements on stairways in train stations (2021)
Journal Article
Ryan, B., Hallewell, M., Hughes, N., Coad, N., Eliseu, J., Lira, M., Grant, A., Parrott, N., & Thompson, K. (2022). Field testing two innovative lighting interventions to influence waiting behaviours and movements on stairways in train stations. Lighting Research and Technology, 54(3), 237-259. https://doi.org/10.1177/14771535211016811

Features of lighting that can influence people’s behaviours have been identified in an earlier study, along with six scenarios where these could be applied to solve problems with movements through railway stations. The current paper describes the dev... Read More about Field testing two innovative lighting interventions to influence waiting behaviours and movements on stairways in train stations.

Suicides (2021)
Book Chapter
Ryan, B. (2021). Suicides. In International Encyclopedia of Transport. Elsevier

This chapter focuses on suicides in railway and highway contexts. The scale of the problem in each is discussed, including explanation of the different types of incidents and the factors that influence these events. The numbers of fatalities are rela... Read More about Suicides.

Human Functions in Safety - Developing a framework of goals, human functions and safety relevant activities for railway socio-technical systems (2021)
Journal Article
Ryan, B., Golightly, D., Pickup, L., Reinartz, S., Atkinson, S., & Dadashi, N. (2021). Human Functions in Safety - Developing a framework of goals, human functions and safety relevant activities for railway socio-technical systems. Safety Science, 140, Article 105279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105279

This paper presents a framework to express the role of people in establishing and maintaining system safety. The Human Functions in Safety (HFiS) framework has been developed for the railway context, describing safety-related activity within function... Read More about Human Functions in Safety - Developing a framework of goals, human functions and safety relevant activities for railway socio-technical systems.

Impact of Covid-19 on Health and Safety in the Construction Sector (2021)
Journal Article
Stiles, S., Golightly, D., & Ryan, B. (2021). Impact of Covid-19 on Health and Safety in the Construction Sector. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries, 31(4), 425-437. https://doi.org/10.1002/hfm.20882

Construction has been significantly affected by COVID-19 yet is critical to the post-COVID economic recovery. Specifically, construction needs to be constantly aware of safety and risk balanced with timely project delivery. Guidance for COVID–19 must... Read More about Impact of Covid-19 on Health and Safety in the Construction Sector.

Identifying new concepts for innovative lighting-based interventions to influence movement and behaviours in train stations (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes, N., Ryan, B., Hallewell, M., Coad, N., Grant, A., Parrott, N., Roberts, S., & Thompson, K. (2020). Identifying new concepts for innovative lighting-based interventions to influence movement and behaviours in train stations. Lighting Research and Technology, 52(8), 976-990. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153520904405

The disorderly and disrupted movement of passengers within train stations are key concerns in rail transport, especially where there are increasing numbers of passengers, coupled with often out-dated, adapted station spaces. With careful planning and... Read More about Identifying new concepts for innovative lighting-based interventions to influence movement and behaviours in train stations.

Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry (2020)
Book Chapter
RYAN, B. (2020). Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry. In Human and Organizational Factors: Practices and Strategies for a Changing World (5-13). Springer

This chapter reflects on how researchers have worked in differ-ent ways with industry in five research projects, investigating and imple-menting solutions for problems related to human and organisational fac-tors (HOF). Three observations are present... Read More about Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry.

Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel (2019)
Journal Article
Olusola, F. T., Siebers, P.-O., Faboya, O., Ryan, B., & Figueredo, G. P. (2020). Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 139, Article 106077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106077

© 2019 Travel mode choices are a result of several factors and how they affect individual travellers. This paper examines those factors influencing travellers’ mode choices commuting to and from a university. Furthermore, we investigate how a shift t... Read More about Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel.

Position Paper: The Usefulness of Data-driven, Intelligent Agent-Based Modelling for Transport Infrastructure Management (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Faboya, O., Figueredo, G. P., Ryan, B., & Siebers, P.-O. (2018, November). Position Paper: The Usefulness of Data-driven, Intelligent Agent-Based Modelling for Transport Infrastructure Management. Presented at The 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Maui, Hawaii, USA

The uneven utilisation of modes of transport has a big impact on traffic in transport pathway infrastrutures. For motor vehicles for instance, this situation explains rapid road deterioration and the large amounts of money invested in maintenance and... Read More about Position Paper: The Usefulness of Data-driven, Intelligent Agent-Based Modelling for Transport Infrastructure Management.

How do travellers decide: a stochastic modelling approach to determine decision factor significance (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olusola, F. T., Siebers, O., Ryan, B., & Figueredo, G. P. (2018, September). How do travellers decide: a stochastic modelling approach to determine decision factor significance. Presented at European Modeling and Simulation Symposium 2018 (EMSS2018), Budapest, Hungary

Many factors are involved in travellers' mode choice decision processes. Such factors include individuals' physical, cognitive, and emotional abilities, which play a significant role in travellers' attitude and mode usage patterns. Understanding how... Read More about How do travellers decide: a stochastic modelling approach to determine decision factor significance.

Readiness to Change: Perceptions of Safety Culture up and down the Supply Chain (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stiles, S., Ryan, B., & Golightly, D. (2018, December). Readiness to Change: Perceptions of Safety Culture up and down the Supply Chain. Presented at 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Florence, Italy

Safety culture research tends to treat organisations as a single body, with less focus on understanding how perceptions vary in a multi stakeholder environment. One such example of a multi-stakeholder environment is a construction project. The succes... Read More about Readiness to Change: Perceptions of Safety Culture up and down the Supply Chain.