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| Regulation and ARS on the modern railway Today at 00:48 #160468 | |
postal
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There is a long and very interesting discussion about regulation and the effects of ARS on today's railway with a lot of comment from signallers and drivers on the WNXX forum at https://www.wnxxforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=40052&start=75.
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| Regulation and ARS on the modern railway Today at 05:45 #160469 | |
drew
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That does require a log in. As a downstream recipient of ARS, I’m against it in most cases. It’s like most forms of automation, it lowers workload in situations when it was already low, and makes things even more difficult when workload is high. It’s a productivity tool for the boss, not an aide for the worker. Deceases the situational awareness of the signaller and disincentivizes creativity and problem solving. We had an interesting form of industrial action here recently, as a part of our enterprise agreement bargaining malarkey. The signallers had an action to not intervene with the ARS unless there was an imminent safety issue. They let it do its thing. Chaos usually ensued. Log in to reply The following users said thank you: sunocske, TUT |
| Regulation and ARS on the modern railway Today at 11:26 #160472 | |
TUT
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Have you noticed how the people who come up with these systems name them after diseases? It's almost as if somewhere, deep down, they know what they're doing. You know one of them is literally called SARS? And then ARS itself, of course, also stands for Acute Radiation Syndrome. Now ARS is a terrible thing. It eats away at you physically and mentally, utterly ravaging body and soul, robbing you of your strength, your vitality and your basic human dignity in life. And the disease is very similar, but at least with the disease you'll probably die after a month or so and then you won't have to worry about it anymore, will you? Personally I think generations of railway workers have sold themselves out. There should have been an ironclad agreement right from the very first that no signaller would ever allow a train to proceed on which they knew or suspected ATO was in use and no driver would ever start their train if they knew or suspected ARS was in use. Instead they invited the vampires in. The last RMT pay deal in the UK included unconditional agreement to the use of traffic management. The RMT didn't even highlight this as a 'con' of the agreement in their brief to their members. Well it's too late to do anything about it now, once you've let the vampires in it's all over. Log in to reply |
| Regulation and ARS on the modern railway Today at 14:34 #160477 | |
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Jan
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Even without ARS you still could have ended up in the same situation where delay attribution causes perverse incentives in that shifting the blame for delays away from you becomes more important than minimising overall delays.
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