German Conference on Rail Human Factors

In a time, where digitalisation and automatization are on everyone’s mind, it becomes even more urgent to keep the human in the loop. Requirements and tasks are changing and impose new challenges on the workforce. These need to be addressed. Rail human factors deals with the question how to incorporate the human in today’s railway system as well as the system of the future.

The 6th German Conference on Rail Human Factors will offer an opportunity to meet with national and international experts in the fields of railway research and human factors and discuss the different topics of Rail Human Factors.

Main topic of the conference is the discussion of ongoing research. Therefore, there will not be any paper proceedings, but we are looking forward to your proposals of a presentation. The conference topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Ergonomics and Usability of advisory and assistance systems
Automation, Train control systems
Fatigue, monotony, mental workload
Risk, Human error and Human reliability
Situation awareness
Incident investigation
Safety culture
Human Factors Integration
Rules and Standards

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Organizing Committee

Dipl.-Inf. Marc Burkhardt (Siemens Mobility GmbH)

Prof. Dr. Birgit Milius (TU Berlin)

Dr. Anja Naumann (German Aerospace Center)