ABSTRACT
Guidelines should be developed to ensure that an appropriate and consistent process is adopted throughout the rail industry for the definition of passenger safety signage requirements in each vehicle type. The work had been commissioned on behalf of the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) and was one of several projects commissioned in response to the recommendations of the Cullen Report into the Ladbroke Grove rail accident. The key challenges for the project were therefore: luminous materials, graphical symbols, and common system. The scope for the project covered the following safety sign categories: safe condition, fire equipment, and passenger alarm/communication devices. An industry stakeholder workshop was facilitated to discuss: all possible safety information that might need to be communicated via fixed signage in trains, the scenarios and circumstances under which the information might be needed, and the associated emergency equipment and the actions required to operate it.
