ABSTRACT
This chapter contains information that will be very useful for academic researchers, but is primarily aimed at rail industry subject matter experts, particularly senior train drivers, train crew training managers and general managers of train service delivery who are interested in evaluating train simulator technology. It discusses the most pertinent issues, and clarifies simulator design, use and management, towards defining classes of simulator that may be used for various goals. The chapter educates train simulator users by peeling back a few layers to tackle the notion of realism and revisit simulator design issues in order to describe the essence of train driving on railways. It describes how train simulators can be used to evaluate performance and technologies, so that industry and academic users, new and old, may realise their full potential and discover the intricacies in human traindriving performance. The chapter discusses issues around data capture and output format for research and reviews goals.
