As digitalisation and automation advance, keeping humans in the loop is essential. Rail Human Factors ensures effective integration of people in today’s and future railway systems.
The 7th German Conference on Rail Human Factors will offer an opportunity to meet with national and international experts in the fields of railway research and human factors and discuss
the different topics of Rail human factors.
- Ergonomics and Usability of advisory and assistance systems
- Automation, Train control systems
- Fatigue, monotony, mental workload
- Risk, Human error and Human reliability
- Situation awareness
- Incident investigation
- Safety culture
- Human Factors Integration
- Rules and Standards
- free of charge
- conference language is English
- Registration start: 15th September 2026
Main topic of the conference is the discussion of ongoing research. Therefore, there will not be any paper proceedings, but we are looking forward to your proposals of a presentation.
- all (Co-)Authors
- the e-amil of the corresponding author
- title of the presentation
- abstracts should not exceed 500 words
1st November 2026
1st December 2026
- 12:30 - 13:00 → Registration
- 13:00 - 18:00 → Presentations
- 18:30 → Get-together
- 09:00 - 13:00 → Presentations & Farewell
Dipl.-Inf. Marc Burkhardt (Siemens Mobility GmbH)
Prof. Dr. Birgit Milius (TU Berlin)
Dr. Anja Naumann (German Aerospace Center)
