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Project Acronym |
TRIP |
| Project Name | Transport Research and Innovation for People |
| Project Dates | 2003-2007 |
| Funding agency/programme | Higher Education Authority (HEA), Ireland |
| Partners | Trinity
College, Dublin University College Cork |
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| Project Website | TRIP website |
| Objective of the Project | Efficiency, Quality and Safety in the Organisation and Operations of Transport Systems in Ireland |
| Summary of the Project |
The Centre for Transportation Research and Innovation for People (TRIP)
is a multidisciplinary research centre, funded by the PRTLI Programme
of the Higher Education Authority, based in TCD with a link to UCC. The
aim of TRIP is to develop and deliver cohesive and dynamic interdisciplinary
activity on all aspects of transport research, but in particular in the
following areas.
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| Details of the Project | The management
of safety in transport is a crucial issue in protecting the public and maintaining
public confidence in the industry. It is well documented that the limitations
of transportation infrastructure and services are causing serious bottlenecks
to continued economic success for Ireland. In Ireland, the railway safety
system has been undergoing radical review; marine safety has been subject
of persistent concern; incidents and accidents have highlighted weaknesses
in the aviation system; and the commercial transport sector plays a critical
role in road safety. These concerns and issues are mirrored internationally
- both in Europe and globally. The role of organisational culture in relation to safety, and the relationship between safety culture and the organisation’s systems (e.g., safety management system) are not well understood. A concerted basic research effort is required to develop a systematic scientific account of the relationships between the systems and structures of organisations, the patterns of understanding that constitute a culture and the normative behaviours, which can give rise to outcomes that are critical to safety. The objective of this research is to undertake comparative investigations of different transport modes (e.g., road, rail, light rail, marine, aviation), in order to understand whether we can develop more general principles concerning the organisational factors that are critical to safety, despite the differences in technology and industrial organisation. It is proposed that the research would build upon a series of European RTD projects addressing the following elements: the formal structures; the way in which the system and its processes are understood by those at different levels and in key roles; process analysis of key safety processes and critical incident analysis. The research will employ both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and would be interdisciplinary (primarily psychology and engineering). The overall output of the project is to validate and further extend the theoretical model and organisational metrics, which have been developed in other European RTD transport projects and develop more general principles concerning the organisational factors which are critical to safety, despite, the differences in technology and industrial organisation. |
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| Contact Detail |
Dr. Siobhán Corrigan Dept of Psychology Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland |