An investigation of the role of a work analysis in the design of automation in railway systems
The past decades has seen automation rapidly increasing in the railway industry, with the "perceived" motivations of faster services, economy, safety, and energy efficiency. However these motivations often obscures the fact that automation also create new burdens and complexities for the operators and maintainers (Bainbridge, 1983; Woods, 1996). Joint Cognitive Systems (JCS) (Woods &