Integration of Human and Organisational Factors in Railway Systems Lifecycle Processes

|Publish Date: Jun 11, 2025|Keywords: Contemporary EHF 2025, Publications, Rail, Tools & techniques|

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Nora Balfe, Virginie Papillault & Anna Windischer-Unterkircher
Abstract
Integration of human factors in railway change management and systems engineering is an increasingly important topic, not least because of emerging regulatory requirements in the area. This paper will describe one model developed collaboratively in the International Union of Railways (UIC) Human and Organisational Factors Working Group (HOFWG) which maps 12 human and organisational factors steps to the 12 steps in the V-cycle model described in the railway Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) standard (EN50126). The aim is to provide a framework, aligned with existing engineering approaches, to communicate how human and organisational factors can be integrated into a railway change project.