Ergonomics Standards in the UK Rail Industry

2017 ◽  
pp. 515-524
Author(s):  
John Wood ◽  
Theresa Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Rail Industry ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals The use of recovery time in timetables: rail passengers’ preferences and valuation relative to travel time and delays

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Ojeda-Cabral ◽  
Jeremy Shires ◽  
Mark Wardman ◽  
Fitsum Teklu ◽  
Nigel Harris
Keyword(s):  
Recovery Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Time ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Small Magnitude ◽  
Demand Characteristics ◽  
Journey Time ◽  
Rail Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Subsequent Improvement

Abstract Recovery time in the rail industry is the additional time that is included in train timetables over and above the minimum journey time necessary often with the explicit aim of improving punctuality. Recovery time is widely used in railways in a number of countries but prior to this study there has been no investigation of the rail users’ point of view. Perceived recovery time, such as being held outside stations and prolonged stops at stations, might have some premium valuation due to the frustration caused. If perceived recovery time in train timetables does carry a premium, then the benefits of improved punctuality achieved by it will be reduced. This paper is the first to investigate passengers’ views and preferences on the use of recovery time. We summarise the findings of a large study and provide estimates of passengers’ valuations of recovery time, both relative to in-vehicle time and late time, that can be used for economic appraisal purposes. Overall, we find most passengers support the use of recovery time but the context is important. Only 13% of users disapprove of its use as a tool to reduce lateness. The estimated premia vary by demand characteristics and are significant in some contexts, although on average are of a small magnitude. The applicability of the estimates is demonstrated through the appraisal of an actual scheme in the UK. We observe that the introduction of more recovery time along with the subsequent improvement in reliability can lead to significant reductions in generalised journey time, even when recovery time carries a valuation premium. We must however strike a word of caution since we note that there were higher than expected proportions of non-traders in the survey which may have affected the results; future studies into the topic should look to minimise the proportion of non-traders. This study provides valuable and necessary first steps in this challenging topic.

scholarly journals Multilevel safety climate in the UK rail industry: A cross validation of the Zohar and Luria MSC scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 183-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Curcuruto ◽  
Mark A. Griffin ◽  
Rajkiran Kandola ◽  
James I. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Rail Industry ◽  
The Uk

Blockchains

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
John M. Easton
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Railway Industry ◽  
Rail Industry ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Open Issue ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Whole Systems

In recent years, the UK railway industry has struggled with the effects of poor integration of data across ICT systems, particularly when that data is being used across organizational boundaries. Technical progress is being made by the industry towards enabling data sharing, but an open issue remains around how the costs of gathering and maintaining pooled information can be fairly attributed across the stakeholders who draw on that shared resource. This issue is particularly significant in areas such as Remote Condition Monitoring, where the ability to analyse the network at a whole-systems level is being blocked by the business cases around the purchase of systems as silos. Blockchains are an emerging technology that have the potential to revolutionize the management of transactions in a number of industrial sectors. This chapter will address the outstanding issues around the fair attribution of costs and benefits of data sharing in the rail industry by proposing blockchains as a forth enabler of the rail data revolution, alongside ESB, ontology, and open data.

Enhancements in the Performance of Journal Bearing Grease

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Blasko ◽  
David Aindow ◽  
Kuldeep K. Mistry
Keyword(s):  
Journal Bearing ◽  
Mechanical Stability ◽  
Operating Temperature ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Journal Bearings ◽  
Tolerance Range ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Acoustic Signatures ◽  
Rail Industry ◽  
The Uk

Wheelsets are removed from service for many reasons by North American Interchange Service. For example, journal bearings can be the cause of wheelset removal when operating temperature or acoustic signatures recorded by wayside detectors exceed certain limits. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has established 13 failure progression modes to categorize the reason a bearing sets off one of these two detection systems. This study focuses on two failure progression modes: water etch caused by corrosion and issues associated with lubrication (grease). Greases for rail journal bearings are expected to satisfy a wide variety of requirements such as moisture tolerance, mechanical stability, vibration tolerance, range of operating temperatures and oxidation resistance, to name a few. This paper provides the reader an overview of several experiments and tests that were conducted with the goal of extending service life and reducing corrosion, including field tests used in the development of advanced journal bearing greases for the rail industry. One such new grease formulation was tested in the UK with good results.

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