Transportation

Regardless of mode of transportation (road, rail, aviation, maritime) ensuring effective user-centred design is vitally important to prevent users from being killed or seriously injured. Human Factors play a significant role in transportation accidents. Human Factors considers the environmental, psychological, physical, and vehicle design factors that leads to the safe operation of the vehicle.

HSI^® provides leading edge Human Factors knowledge and methods to evaluate, analyze, model and report on equipment and technology that affects operator behaviour, passenger safety, and situation awareness. HSI^® staff and Associates have worked on a diverse range of projects including:

• Design reviews of transit vehicles
• Air traffic control displays
• In vehicle navigation displays
• Road symbols, signs and wayfinding systems
• Controlled closed track studies of devices such as lane departure warning systems
• Design of child safety-restraint seats
• Driver distraction, loss of situational awareness and road traffic accidents
• Open road observational studies of aggressive driver behaviours
• Human-centred accident investigation methods
• Vehicle fitness inspections, seat belt investigations
• Pre- and post-impact vehicle dynamics
• Evaluation of driver processes
• Railway accident patterns