Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101137

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160101137

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

The whole is greater than its parts: Improving rail safety through teamwork. This project seeks to develop a train driving risk model that includes human factors, to enable rail organisations to better identify and mitigate safety risks. Train driving is a cognitively demanding task in which errors can quickly lead to catastrophic consequences. Signals passed at danger (SPADs) occur when a train goes past a red light. Despite significant investment in better signalling and communications infrastructure, SPAD rates remain unacceptably high and are projected to rise. SPAD risk is currently managed with a retrospective approach that fails to consider non-technical human factors such as time pressure, workload and team communications. By including non-technical dimensions, this project seeks to develop a comprehensive model to explain and prevent SPADs.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $373,536.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industrial and Organisational Psychology | Psychology | Decision Making

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Rail Safety | Rail Infrastructure and Networks |

Other Keywords

Decision Making | Industrial and Organisational Psychology | Psychology | Rail Infrastructure and Networks | Rail Safety

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