Organizational effects of experience from accidents. Learning in the aftermath of the Tretten and Åsta train accidents

Geir Sverre Braut, Øivind Solberg and Ove Njå

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2014, vol. 69, issue C, 354-366

Abstract: This article explores possible signs on learning in organizations following two major railway accidents in Norway, the Tretten accident in 1975 and the Åsta accident in 2000. These are the most serious railway accidents to have occurred in the past decades and both involved collisions on a single track system. The two events have been analyzed and compared in order to investigate possible learning effects and possible differences in learning given the 25-year span between them. The study is based on the analysis of selected documents related to the accidents in general and the narrative components in the documentation related to learning in particular.

Keywords: Accident investigation; Learning; Rail; Comparative analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.08.013

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