Future Human Performance Model for Malaysian Train Driver

Safety is important as technology advancement increasing daily. Accidents in transportation industry happen every day and given bad impact to the industry. Public transports become an alternative to the urban people, as the traffic congestion getting worse today which will results on increasing number of locomotives, as to fulfill the service demands, at the same time will increase number of train drivers, shifts, rail traffic congestion and other challenges. Another important issue will rise from this situation; safety. It is important for us to understand and investigate the performance of the train driver in order to ensure safety. Human performance and reliability become very important today when error and accident causation sometimes were blamed to the human. The purpose of this paper is to review human performance related to industries as well as the railway industry and discuss the importance of human performance studies for Malaysia train drivers. The review adopts a comprehensive literature review from numerous published sources via journals, books and electronic databases. The paper provides fresh literature on human performance models developed by other researchers to offer innovative ideas and concepts during the process of understanding the existing problems and issues.