Improving signal passed at danger management in New Zealand rail operations: Combining stabilised approach procedures with risk-triggered commentary driving

2016 ◽  
Vol 231 (10) ◽  
pp. 1070-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip J O’Connell ◽  
Fiona Lawton ◽  
Ann M Mills ◽  
Karen Klockner
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
System Design ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Expert Group ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Effective Signal ◽  
Organisational Strategy ◽  
New Procedures ◽  
Signal Action

The critical examination of driver cognition and information processing is vital to ensuring an effective signal passed at danger (SPAD) prevention strategy. Although this need was identified in KiwiRail’s organisational strategy to reduce signal passed at danger risk, the why and how factors were not clearly described and robustly linked to deliver the necessary effects. With risk-triggered commentary driving programmes gaining recognition as valuable components and activities within the driver competency model, an opportunity to couple risk-triggered commentary driving with stabilised approach methodologies and procedures, adopted from aviation and modified for use on New Zealand’s railway network was subsequently identified. A driver subject matter expert group was formed, a literature review completed, guidance developed and new procedures trialled. This activity provided new opportunities to introduce error-tolerant system design, increase accuracy of driver signal action response and reduce signal passed at danger risk on New Zealand’s National Rail System by adopting and designing bespoke methodologies that support enhanced driver cognition and safe system design.

Systematic Literature Review of the Natural Environment of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, from a Conservation Perspective

Conservation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 270-284
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Zakharovskyi ◽  
Károly Németh
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Terrestrial Environment ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
Geological Evolution ◽  
Silver Mineralization

This research presents a literature review of published scientific literature on the Coromandel Peninsula, a well-known region of the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It contains many biological, geological, and historical features and is well known for beautiful scenery, resulting from a volcanic rock-dominated terrestrial environment influenced by oceanic factors at the coast. All these factors have combined to make the Coromandel a popular tourism destination for New Zealanders and offshore visitors. In researching the current state of knowledge of the region, we searched three scientific databases to define the main ways of studying the region. The results demonstrated a high interest in biological and environmental factors, reflected in the type and scale of conservation measures applied to flora and fauna of the region. Additionally, specificity of geological evolution was a highly examined subject, in the context of hydrothermal alteration as related to gold and silver mineralization resulting in extensive exploration and mining. Meanwhile, indigenous cultural aspects of the land were not recognizable as expected within Western scientific literature, even though the region contains sites recognized as some of the earliest Māori habitations. Therefore, we suggest future studies to expand our understanding of scientific, cultural, and social aspects of the region as applied to the field of conservation in the region.

scholarly journals The corporate takeover of the online public sphere: A critical examination, with reference to 'the New Zealand case'

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Alternative ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Much communications research is in agreement about the failure of mass media to adequately facilitate a public sphere of open and reflexive debate necessary for strong democratic culture. In contrast , the internet's decentralised, two-way communication is seen by many commentators to be extending such debate. However, there is some ambivalence among critical theorists as to the future role of the internet in advancing the public sphere. On the one hand, the internet is providing the means fot the voicing of positions and identities excluded from the mass media. On the other hand, a number of problem are limiting the extensiveness and effetivness of this voicing. One of the most significant problems is the corporate colonisation of cyberspace, and subsequent marginalisation rational-critical communication. It is this problem that i will focus on in this article, with reference to examples from what I refer to as the 'New Zealand online public sphere'. I show how online corporate portals and media sites are gaining the most attention orientated to public communication, including news, information, and discussion. These sites generally support conservative discourse and consumer practices. The result is a marginalisation online of the very voices marginalised offline, and also of the critical-reflexive form of communication that makes for a strong public sphere. I conclude by noting that corporate colonisation is as yet only partial, and control of attention and media is highly contested by multiple 'alternative' discursive spaces online.

scholarly journals Context in international business: Entrepreneurial internationalization from a distant small open economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eldrede Kahiya
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
International Business ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
Context Shapes

Context matters in International Business, but to what extent does it influence the content of knowledge? This study offers a systematic literature review on the internationalization of New Zealand firms. A geographically isolated small open economy (SMOPEC) with audacious trade aspirations, a strong domestic institutional environment, favorable attitude toward trade, and entrepreneurial small-to-medium size enterprises (SMEs), New Zealand provides an enlightening context to study internationalization. Using a sample of 95 studies, the review identifies antecedents, stimuli, capabilities, strategy, process and outcomes underpinning internationalizing New Zealand firms (INZFs). Context matters but not in the manner anticipated. On one hand research on the internationalization of New Zealand firms is largely congruent with extant knowledge, on the other the New Zealand context shapes uniquely, how and what scholars choose to research.

How Incentive System Design Affects Risk-Taking: A Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Kreilkamp ◽  
Sascha Matanovic ◽  
Maximilian Schmidt ◽  
Arnt Wöhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
System Design ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Incentive System

scholarly journals A Concept of WSD as an Implemented Approach to the Successful Design of a High-Rise Residential

2019 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 06013
Author(s):  
Diah Listyaningsih ◽  
Christiono Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
System Design ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Residential Property ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
System Design Approach

Construction project success depends on success of design. It is very rare previous research about the success of design as a determinant to the success of construction projects. The Whole System Design (WSD) approach in a planning of a high-rise residential property consider the success interrelatedness of both problems and solutions. It can help to create more sustainable designs. Nevertheless, designers often face several factors that exclusively reduce the rate of successful design i.e. design model and methods. One way to manage this issue is to reduce ambiguousness by using a whole system design approach. This study purposes to explore framework of Whole System Design approach for successful design. Application of literature review method is used to understanding the problem by analysing 20 articles about high-rise building, residential and whole system design. The result presents a mapping of several methods that used in previous research. It is to help more widespread the successful design in a high-rise residential property.

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