1. Operations and Safety
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Phil Sochon
Australasian Railway Association
Program Leader
CRC for Rail Innovation
Drew Dawson
University of South Australia
Program Leader
CRC for Rail Innovation
Established and Supported under Australia’s
Cooperative Research Centres Programme
2. Overview
Improving safety at level crossings
Safer outcomes – fatigue
Safer outcomes – Improved training
New t h l i project
N technologies j t
Improved passenger experience
Vandalism – graffiti
Future directions
Questions
3. Improving Safety at Level
Crossings
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The problem
High cost of railway
level crossing accidents
Limited resources to
upgrade sites
New technologies hold
co s de ab e promise
considerable p o se
but not well understood
Combined R2 and R3 initiative
4. Improving Safety at Level
Crossings
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The approaches
Intelligent Transport
Systems
Simulation studies
of new technologies
Measuring change
in driver behaviour
Railway Level Crossing Database
Web-
Web-based national database including Human
Factors and Engineering causes
5. Safer Outcomes - Fatigue
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The problem
Tired drivers are at higher risk of accident and
injury
Restricting working hours is inflexible and costly
and does not necessarily improve safety
Regulatory i
R l t inconsistency creates diffi lti for
i t t difficulties f
national operators
FAID is used in different ways in different states
FAID is not validated for all rail safety workers
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6. Safer Outcomes - Fatigue
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The approaches
Development of National Standard for
Fatigue Risk Management in
conjunction with ARA and regulators
Expanded database of rail safety worker
sleep-
sleep-wake behaviour so that fatigue
modeling software can be applied
more broadly
7. Safer Outcomes – Improved Training
The problem
Ultra-
Ultra-safe organisations have a strong
emphasis on promoting safety culture
Safety management careers do not
have strong post-graduate skilling or
post-
extensive discipline cohorts
8. Safer Outcomes – Improved Training
The approach
Vocational Ed
V i l Education & T i i (VET)
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Sector Program
Certificate IV (articulates)
National Masters in Rail Safety
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Management
Graduate Certificate (6 months)
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Graduate Diploma (12 months)
Masters in RSM (18 months)
9. New Technologies Project
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The problem
New technologies fundamentally
change the nature of the work task
The law of unintended consequence
can produce perverse outcomes
Designers and sales people often fail
to anticipate the complex
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consequences of new technologies
10. New Technologies Project
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The approach
Analysis of current and emerging new
in-
in-cab technologies to identify
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potential Human Factors p problems
Development of a Human Factors
toolkit that will enable purchasers of
new technology to identify and
anticipate Human Factors that may
lead to perverse safety outcomes
11. Improved passenger experience
The
Th problem
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Increasing passenger volumes has
increased crowding
This may reduce potential utilisation and
increase use of private transport
Passenger tolerance for static and
dynamic crowding is not well
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understood in Australia
12. Improved passenger experience
The approach
Improved understanding of the factors
that determine and predict passenger
tolerance for crowding
Improved understanding of the
consequences of crowding on urban rail
operations
Improved understanding of the
environmental impacts of improved
tolerance to crowding
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13. Vandalism - Graffiti
The problem
Graffiti is
associated
with significant p
g prevention and removal
costs (>$20M p.a.)
Graffiti reduces public satisfaction
with public transport - insecurity
Graffiti reduces utilisation of public
transport
14. Vandalism - Graffiti
The approach
Review of local and international
approaches to prevention and removal of
graffiti
Findings on ho graffiti can be red ced
how reduced
and/or eliminated using standard and
innovative approaches
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Standard technical approaches
Community based initiatives
Use of preventive vegetation
National workshop in 2010
15. Future Directions
Rail i l
R il simulator studies
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Sydac – simulator to be co
s uao o commissioned
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February 2010
Improved route knowledge acquisition
Accelerated driver training
Single-
Single-driver operations safety case
Evaluating
E l ti protective and adaptive
t ti d d ti
strategies to fatigued operations
