TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing incidents in a complex system
T2 - a railway case study
AU - Collis, L.
AU - Schmid, F.
AU - Tobias, A.
PY - 2014/5/1
Y1 - 2014/5/1
N2 - The authors of this paper review how complex entities, composed of many interdependent subsystems, such as international rail operators, can improve their ability to recover from incidents through the better management of key interfaces. The principles of Normal Accident Theory and resilience engineering are discussed, and the case study of the Eurostar incident of 18-19 December 2009 is considered in detail. Lessons learnt from resilience engineering are applied to the case study to extract recommendations by which incident management for open access international rail transport may be improved.
AB - The authors of this paper review how complex entities, composed of many interdependent subsystems, such as international rail operators, can improve their ability to recover from incidents through the better management of key interfaces. The principles of Normal Accident Theory and resilience engineering are discussed, and the case study of the Eurostar incident of 18-19 December 2009 is considered in detail. Lessons learnt from resilience engineering are applied to the case study to extract recommendations by which incident management for open access international rail transport may be improved.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10111-013-0255-x
DO - 10.1007/s10111-013-0255-x
M3 - Article
SN - 1435-5558
VL - 16
SP - 171
EP - 185
JO - Cognition, Technology & Work
JF - Cognition, Technology & Work
IS - 2
ER -