• DocumentCode
    2086196
  • Title

    Managing human factors in London Underground

  • Author

    Bourne, Andrew

  • Author_Institution
    London Underground Ltd., UK
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    42491
  • Lastpage
    42493
  • Abstract
    London Underground (LU) currently employs some 16,000 people. Around 9,000 can be considered to be operators. In the course of their work they `operate´ station facilities, trains, control systems in order to safely and effectively deliver London´s tube service. This paper is about what LU has learned recently about the interaction of operators with the equipment provided
  • Keywords
    railways; Jubilee line; London Underground; human factors; human operators; man machine interaction; railways;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Control of Railways - The Human Challenge (Ref. No. 2000/049), IEE Seminar on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/ic:20000255
  • Filename
    848191