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A field evaluation of an in-ground lighting intervention for safety at a road crossing (2024)
Journal Article

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

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

Conceptualising innovative lighting interventions for suicide, trespass and risky behaviour on the railway (2022)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

© 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)
Conference Proceeding

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)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Classifying Normal and Suspicious Behaviours When Accessing Public Locations (2018)
Conference Proceeding

In order to identify and respond appropriately to suspicious behaviour in public locations, it can be important to understand the typical behaviours in a particular setting. An observation study has been carried out at two libraries to explore the en... Read More about Classifying Normal and Suspicious Behaviours When Accessing Public Locations.

Getting the Right Culture to Make Safety Systems Work in a Complex Rail Industry (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Network Rail is a large rail engineering company sitting within a complex industrial landscape. That said, Britain’s railways are the safest they have ever been. However, it is acknowledged that there is still room for improvement in safety and oper... Read More about Getting the Right Culture to Make Safety Systems Work in a Complex Rail Industry.

Readiness to Change: Perceptions of Safety Culture up and down the Supply Chain (2018)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Collecting evidence from distributed sources to evaluate railway suicide and trespass prevention measures (2018)
Journal Article

It can be difficult to select from available safety preventative measures, especially where there is limited evidence of effectiveness in different contexts. This paper describes application of a method to identify and evaluate wide-ranging preventat... Read More about Collecting evidence from distributed sources to evaluate railway suicide and trespass prevention measures.

Participatory ergonomics in Indonesian tin mining (2018)
Journal Article

Thousands of small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) employees in Indonesian tin mining companies work in dangerous environments without sufficient safety and health protections. This study’s aim was to investigate the identified factors, such as diffic... Read More about Participatory ergonomics in Indonesian tin mining.