Preliminary Analysis and Simulation of Railroad Dispatcher Workload
Railroad dispatch centers increasingly use technology to assist dispatchers as they interact with multiple entities across a variety of tasks to ensure trains and track personnel function safely on an efficient schedule. A railroad dispatcher workload simulation could, therefore, be useful in estimating the impact of new technologies on dispatchers’ workload and overall system performance, particularly in the concept generation phase of a systems engineering process. This paper first discusses railroad dispatchers’ work analysis based on a large dispatch center and then presents the development of the Railroad Dispatcher Workload Simulation (RDWS), which generates models of dispatcher workload given various settings.
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- © 2018 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
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Authors:
- Huang, Lixiao
- Cummings, M L
- Nneji, Victoria C
- Publication Date: 2018-9
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 691-695
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Serial:
- Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
- Volume: 62
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 2169-5067
- EISSN: 1071-1813
- Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pro
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Dispatchers; Railroad facility operations; Railroad transportation; Simulation; Workload
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01708242
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 24 2019 10:10AM