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New project for Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross has volunteered to serve on a Transportation Research Board Panel to oversee the project entitled 'Enhancing Sleep Efficiency on Towboats in the U.S. Inland Waterway Industry'.

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Ross, Jonathan

 

 Jonathan Ross is the Principal of High Ground Initiatives LLC, where he provides services in human factors, renewable energy, naval architecture and ocean engineering. He holds an MSE in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan and is a registered Professional Engineer (US) as well as a Chartered Engineer (UK). He served in the US Navy in the Atlantic and Pacific. He has written numerous technical papers and is the author of Human Factors for Naval Marine Vehicle Design and Operation (Ashgate 2009).

More evidence that self-reports have their limitations when used in traffic safety research

In his thought-provoking book Driver-Behaviour and Accident Research Methodology, author Anders af Wåhlberg maintains some of the research methods commonly employed rely on unfounded assumptions or faulty methodology.

He maintains, subsequently published research supports his position, for example, in the case of self-reports.

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 Wåhlberg, Anders af

Anders af Wåhlberg is a research consultant and part-time teacher. Clients include Uppsala University (Sweden), Swedish Forestry Research Institute, Cranfield University (UK) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia). Anders has a B.A. in history, and an M.A. as well as a PhD in psychology, from Uppsala University. His main research interests are driver behaviour and accidents. He has also published on the topics of risk perception and fuel-efficient driving. He has worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Risk Research, Stockholm School of Economics, and led various projects at Uppsala University's Department of Psychology.

New role for Don Harris

Don Harris has recently joined the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University in the UK as Professor of Human Factors. 

He has been tasked to develop a new academic capability in Human Factors serving the Aerospace, Automotive, Architecture and Production Engineering sectors. 

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 Don Harris

Don Harris is a Fellow of the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors and a Chartered Psychologist. He is author of over 150 academic papers and has edited or authored 19 books.  

Professor Harris is Commissioning Editor (along with Neville Stanton and Eduardo Salas) for the Ashgate series Human Factors in Defence and Editor in Chief of the Journal Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors.  In the last two years he has published two books with Ashgate, Human Performance on the Flight Deck and Writing Human Factors Research Papers.

Elizabeth A. Hoppe to deliver paper on regulatory capture and the FAA

‘Regulatory capture arises when a regulator who works closely with a regulated entity ends up identifying with the interests of the regulated party rather than the rules it should be enforcing.’

So explains Elizabeth A. Hoppe, editor of  Ethical Issues in Aviation who is to deliver a paper entitled ‘The Federal Aviation Administration and the Ethical Dimensions of Regulatory Capture’ to the Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting (Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA, Sunday, August 5, 2012).

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 Elizabeth A. Hoppe Dr. Elizabeth A. Hoppe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lewis University, Illinois. In 2003 she created an ethics course for the aviation majors and helped develop a graduate core course for the Aviation and Transportation Studies M.S. program. She is a member of the Association for Professional and Practical Ethics, and she has presented a paper on aviation ethics at their annual meeting in 2008.

New Human Factors Books from Ashgate

Driver Behaviour and Training Vol V edited by Lisa Dorn, Cranfield University, UK,  September 2012

Advances in Traffic Psychology edited by Mark Sullman and Lisa Dorn, both at Cranfield University, UK, October 2012

Safety and Quality in Medical Transport Systems edited by John W. Overton, Jr. and Eileen Frazer, Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, USA, December 2012

Designing Soldier Systems edited by Pamela Savage-Knepshield, U.S. Army Research Laboratory - Human Research and Engineering Directorate, USA; John Martin, U.S. Army Research Laboratory – Human Research and Engineering Directorate, USA ; John Lockett III, U.S. Army Research Laboratory – Human Research and Engineering Directorate, USA and Laurel Allender, U.S. Army Research Laboratory - Human Research and Engineering Directorate, USA, December 2012

Driver Distraction and Inattention edited by Michael. A. Regan, University of New South Wales, Australia, John D. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Trent W. Victor, Volvo Technology, Sweden, January 2013

Trapping Safety into Rules by Corinne Bieder, Airbus, France and Mathilde Bourrier, University of Geneva, Switzerland, February 2013


 



 



 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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