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Detailed review of:
Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems
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Publishers
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Springer
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Author
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B. S. Dhillon
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Title
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Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems
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Year of Publication
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2007
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Pages
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182
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ISBN
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9781846288111
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Reviewer
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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The book consists of 11 chapters as follows:
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Chapter 1
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Introduction
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11 Pages
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Chapter 2
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Human Reliability and Error Basic Mathematical Concepts
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15 Pages
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Chapter 3
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Introductory Human Factors
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13 Pages
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Chapter 4
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Basic Human Reliability and Error Concepts
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13 Pages
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Chapter 5
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Methods for Performing Human Reliability and Error Analysis in Transportation Systems
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20 Pages
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Chapter 6
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Human Error in Railways
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14 Pages
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Chapter 7
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Human Error in Shipping
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13 Pages
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Chapter 8
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Human Error in Road Transportation Systems
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12 Pages
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Chapter 9
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Human Error in Aviation
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14 Pages
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Chapter 10
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Human Error in Aircraft Maintenance
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12 Pages
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Chapter 11
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Mathematical Models for Predicting Human Reliability and Error in Transportation System
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20 Pages
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Appendix
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Bibliography: Literature on Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems
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12 Pages
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Author Biography
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1 Page
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Index
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4 Pages
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This book comes from an author who has authored 32 books on many topics and relating them to theory of reliability, maintenance and safety engineering, while covering very many areas of applications. The complete list of his books starting from 1981 to 2008 can be found at his website at: http://www.genie.uottawa.ca/~dhillon/dhillon.htm.
From this list, one can see that there are at least 5 books related to Human Reliability and Errors. His books have published by many publishers. In such a scenario, some overlap between various books cannot be avoided. Not only basic mathematical tools remain the same but also the reliability modelling and methodologies of treating the subject using as FMEA, event trees, cause effect diagrams, fault trees or Markov method remain the same. The present book presents the subject of possible human errors in transportation systems, which includes aviation (including air craft maintenance), railways, shipping and road transportation. It is a very wide area of coverage and the information on the kinds of human errors that are often encountered in these areas of applications is widely scattered. The author has tried to compile all that in one place in this book. For example, while discussing rail transportation system, he lists the facts and figures and examples of human errors and causes of major historical accidents and tracing them to human errors. The examples are more general and it would have been better to discuss some specific case studies with real data rather keeping the analysis very general. The bibliography given in appendix makes this book useful to an engineer or analyst wanting to do serious study.
However, the reviewer is of the opinion that the information compiled shall be useful for an analyst in identifying the causes and in selecting the mathematical approach for a specific application.
K. B. Misra
This review has been published in the International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2009 issue on page 44.
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