Outcome 2: Industry
Growth
The Operations and Safety
Research Program will focus on maximising the operational
efficiency of the rail value chain while simultaneously enhancing
and promoting safety.
This program will focus on two
research themes closely linked to the proposed research in programs
one and three:
- Improved operational risk
management; and
- Better management of the
public and customer / rail system interface.
Key strategies will
include:
- Development of national
integrated safety incident database and standardised incident
investigation instruments that reliably identify design, hardware,
human and organizational determinants of accidents.
- Modeling through a dedicated
Rail Human Factors simulation laboratory, together with development
of next-generation fatigue risk analysis algorithms to be embedded
in Crew Resource Management software systems and analytic tools to
identify human factors issues critical to the development of
Advanced Train Management Systems.
- Development of fully
articulated national human Factors / Safety Management Systems
curricula for use across TAFE / University sectors, supported by
standardised safety culture toolkits for identifying leading
indicators of safety risk and normative safety incident
benchmarking data for use by rail regulators and
operators.
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