Emanuelle Mastrodonato

Project Officer

Emanuele Mastrodonato is a Chartered Electronic Engineer and a PhD candidate. He has been working for the railways since 2002: at the Italian Infrastructure Manager RFI (www.rfi.it) as Lead Project Manager; at CER, the Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies (www.cer.be) as Senior Advisor and at the European Rail Freight Corridor Scandinavian Mediterranean (www.scanmedfreigth.eu) as the Managing Director. In 2022 he joined the European Railway Agency as Project Officer on Safety and Operation. 

Improving ERTMS performance by integrating Human and Organisational Factors

The presentation explains how ERTMS performance can be improved by integrating Human and Organisational Factors. The topic is presented taking a systemic view. The aspects of human automation team-working, the changing role of staff in automated railway operation and human cognition, are described using an evidence-based approach. Starting with real-operational cases, the HOF toolkit is introduced as a potential solution.