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Laura Pickup

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Recent Publications

  • LAURA PICKUP, 2012. Does Train Noise Assist the Railway Lookout? (IOE/RAIL/12/03/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Vigilance and the Railway Lookout. Literature Review (IOE/RAIL/11/03/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Local Knowledge in Rail Traffic Control (IOE/RAIL/11/05/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Local Knowledge What is it and Why do Signallers Need it? (IOE/RAIL/11/06/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2012. Does Train Noise Assist the Railway Lookout? (IOE/RAIL/12/03/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Vigilance and the Railway Lookout. Literature Review (IOE/RAIL/11/03/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Local Knowledge in Rail Traffic Control (IOE/RAIL/11/05/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Local Knowledge What is it and Why do Signallers Need it? (IOE/RAIL/11/06/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Railway Lookout Alerting Systems (IOE/RAIL/11/07/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2011. Coping Strategies (IOE/RAIL/11/08/R)
  • PICKUP, L., WILSON, J. and LOWE, E., 2010. The Operational Demand Evaluation Checklist (ODEC) of workload for railway signalling APPLIED ERGONOMICS. VOL 41(NUMBER 3), 393-402
  • PICKUP.L, RYAN.B, GOLIGHTLY.D AND LOWE.E, 2010. Activity Analysis Timeline as a Tool for HF Investigation in the Rail Control Room. In: WOODS.J, ed., ICOCO 2010 Conference Proceedings 1. The Institue for Ergonomics and Human Factors. 268-275
  • LAURA PICKUP and DAVID GOLIGHTLY, 2009. Observation of TOP Trial at Swindon B signal centre 12th & 13th November 2008 & 26th & 27th November 2008 (IOE/RAIL/09/02/R)
  • LAURA PICKUP, 2009. The evaluation of signaller workload during protections/possessions (IOE/RAIL/09/07/R)
  • LOWE, E. and PICKUP, L., 2008. Network rail signaller's workload toolkit CONTEMPORARY ERGONOMICS. YEAR 2008, 558-563
  • LAURA PICKUP, BRENDAN RYAN and JOHN WILSON, 2008. Update on work to develop an evaluation of the demands on signallers during protections/possessions (IOE/RAIL/08/4/R)
  • PICKUP,L AND WILSON.J.R, 2007. Mental Workload Assessment and the Development of the Operational Demand Evaluation Checklist (ODEC) for Signallers.. In: WILSON,J.R, NORRIS,B. CLARKE,T AND MILLS.A, ed., People and Rail Systems. Human Factors at the Heart of the Railway Ashgate Publishing Limited. 215-223
  • PICKUP, L., WILSON, J.R., NORRIS, B.J., MITCHELL, L. and MORRISROE, G., 2005. The Integrated Workload Scale (IWS): a new self-report tool to assess railway signaller workload Applied Ergonomics. 36(6), 681-693
  • FARRINGTON-DARBY, T., PICKUP, L. and WILSON, J. R., 2005. Safety culture in railway maintenance Safety Science. VOL 43(NUMBER 1), 39-60
  • PICKUP, L, WILSON, J.R, SHARPLES, S.C, NORRIS, B.J and CLARKE, T. AND YOUNG, M.S., 2005. Fundamental examination of mental workload in the rail industry Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. 6(6), 463-482
  • WILSON, J.R, PICKUP, L. NORRIS, B.J and SHARPLES, S. & MITCHELL, L., 2005. Understanding of mental workload in the railways.. In: J.R. WILSON AND B.J. NORRIS, ed., Rail Human Factors. Ashgate: London. 309-318
  • FARRINGTON-DARBY, T, PICKUP, L and WILSON, J.R. & ADAMS, L., 2005. Understanding Safety Culture and Strategies for Improvement in Railway Maintenance.. In: J.R. WILSON AND B.J. NORRIS, ed., Rail Human Factors. Ashgate: London. 383-392
  • PICKUP, L, WILSON, J.R and SHARPLES, S. & SMITH, S., 2005. A conceptual framework of mental workload and the development of a self reporting integrated workload scale for railway signallers.. In: J.R. WILSON AND B.J. NORRIS, ed., Rail Human Factors. Ashgate: London. 319-329
  • MITCHELL.L, PICKUP.L, THOMAS,S AND WATTS.D, 2005. Assessment of New Workload Tools for the Rail Industry. In: WILSON.J.R, NORRIS.B, CLARKE.T AND MILLS.A, ed., Rail Human Factors. Supporting the Integrated Railway Ashgate Publishing Limited. 330-340
  • FARRINGTON-DARBY, T., PICKUP, L. and WILSON, J., 2003. Safe and unsafe behaviour amongst railway track workers Contemporary Ergonomics 2003: Proceedings from the Ergonomics Society Conference, Edinburgh.. 391-396
  • PICKUP, L., WILSON, J.R. and CLARKE, T., 2003. Mental workload of the railway signaller. In: PAUL T. MCCABE, ed., Contemporary Ergonomics 2003. Proceedings from the Ergonomics Society Conference, Edinburgh. Taylor & Francis Ltd, London. 397-402
  • WILSON, J. R., CORDINER, L., NICHOLS, S., NORTON, L., BRISTOL, N., CLARKE, T. and ROBERTS, S., 2001. On the Right Track: Systematic Implementation of Ergonomics in Railway Network Control Cognition, Technology and Work. VOL 3(NUMB 4), 238-252

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