Gaming Simulations for Railways: Lessons Learned from Modeling Six Games for the Dutch Infrastructure Management

Meijer, Sebastiaan

doi:10.5772/35864

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“…The fact that these questions involved a unit of analysis at system level, and contained both technical and social elements, created the need to use gaming simulation to test such measures in a safe environment. For a more in-depth analysis, we refer the reader to Meijer (2012), Lo et al (2013), Van den Hoogen, Lo, and Meijer (2014b) and Van den Hoogen, Lo, and Meijer (2014a). The framework presented here is a distillation of all of this work.…”

Section: Framework For Debriefing Games For Researchmentioning

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Debriefing Research Games

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Meijer

2016

Simulation & Gaming

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Debriefing Research Games

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Meijer

2016

Simulation & Gaming

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“…The traffic control performance of the Dutch railway infrastructure manager, ProRail, daily impacts roughly 1.2 million train passengers and the transportation of 100.000 tons cargo, covering over 7000 kilometers of track [31]. These characteristics combined make the Dutch railways one of the most heavily utilized railway infrastructures worldwide [32]. Nonetheless, political and organizational targets have been set to increase the number of trains by 50% between 2008 and 2020 to facilitate the future infrastructure capacity demands of train operating companies, that are separate from ProRail as an infrastructure manager [33].…”

Section: Situation Awareness Measuring Techniques In Gaming Simumentioning

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Situation awareness measurement techniques for gaming simulations: An overview and application for railway traffic controllers

Meijer

2013

2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA

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This paper provides an extended gaming simulation framework and methods overview for the selection and development of situation awareness (SA) measurement techniques in gaming simulations. Gaming simulations are here defined as a simulation of a system through the use of gaming methods. Unlike SA measurements in human-in-the-loop simulators like cockpits, measurements for situation awareness in multi-actor gaming simulation environments are little investigated as a methodological approach. The aim of the framework is to bridge the gap between the theoretical implications of gaming simulations design elements and SA measurement techniques. Secondly, to provide key elements in game design and evaluation for the development of situation awareness measurement techniques. The framework is applied to determine a set of situation awareness measurement techniques for Dutch railway traffic controllers, in which the Dutch railway sector is increasingly using gaming simulation methods to investigate influences of new innovations for the railway system before innovations are put into the operations. Different sets of situation awareness measurement techniques for individuals and team/groups in railway traffic control are selected.

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“…Many of these games started with the request to test (formally) the effects of a new artifact, being either a track layout or a new timetable (Lo et al 2013;Meijer 2012). While setting up these sessions in the frame of gaming for research, it increasingly appeared that the artifact was not complete.…”

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