The Future Locomotive: How to Manage What You Have Today With a View to the Future

TRB E-Circular 212: The Future Locomotive: How to Manage What You Have Today With a View to the Future explores the presentations of a meeting held on July 30-31, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska that examined locomotive cab design in terms of human machine interface theory and railroad applications. The meeting included perspectives from researchers, unions, locomotive engineers, engine manufacturers, and railroad management. Topics included human system integration, the evolution of today’s designs, the operator’s perspective, sources of human error, workload and automation, energy management, prospective future design features, the European perspective, and active noise cancellation.