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What is Accident Scenario

Chapter 4
Handbook of Research on Decision Sciences and Applications in the Transportation Sector
An accident scenario describes a combination of circumstances which can lead to an undesirable or even dangerous situation. It is characterized by a context and a set of events and parameters. An accident scenario is an adequate and orderly succession of events that may be the source of a potential accident risk (collision, derailment, electrocution, etc.). Each risk of accident likely to endanger the safety of travellers or to impair the ability of the system to perform the required safety functions is translated by safety experts into an accident scenario. The development of an accident scenario is based in particular on the history of transport systems already certified.
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Human Factors Affecting Railway Safety: Approach for Considering Human Errors in Investigations
Habib Hadj-Mabrouk (University Gustave Eiffel, France)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8040-0.ch004
Abstract
While the consideration of human factors in the railway feedback of experience (REX) process is becoming a new priority, the procedures are far from systematic, and the methodologies remain uncertain. Inspired in particular by the works of Reason and Rasmussen and supported by application examples from the field of railway safety, the human error analysis approach proposed to improve the level of safety of rail transport systems involves three complementary levels. Before the accident, the first level of “contextual analysis” makes it possible to study the various factors favouring the production of the human error at the origin of the accident. During the accident and in the face of a critical situation, the second level of “cognitive analysis” focuses on finding and examining the human errors involved in the human cognitive process. Finally, after the accident, the last level of “behavioural analysis” focuses on the evaluation of the consequences and damage caused to humans, to the system, and to their environment.
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Chapter 5
Decision Support Approach for Assessing of Rail Transport: Methods Based on AI and Machine Learning
An accident scenario describes a combination of circumstances which can lead to an undesirable or even dangerous situation. It is characterized by a context and a set of events and parameters. An accident scenario is an adequate and orderly succession of events that may be the source of a potential accident risk (collision, derailment, electrocution, etc.). Each risk of accident likely to endanger the safety of travellers or to impair the ability of the system to perform the required safety functions is translated by safety experts into an accident scenario. The development of an accident scenario is based in particular on the history of transport systems already certified.
Published in Chapter: Decision Support Approach for Assessing of Rail Transport: Methods Based on AI and Machine Learning; From: Handbook of Research on Decision Sciences and Applications in the Transportation Sector
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