Title :
Managing human factors in London Underground
Author_Institution :
London Underground Ltd., UK
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;
Conference_Titel :
Control of Railways - The Human Challenge (Ref. No. 2000/049), IEE Seminar on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:20000255
