This special issue contributes to the achievement of challenges related to human factors and automation dedicated to future railway systems. It includes transverse research topics by considering several emerging trends as the design of learning systems, of grades of automation, of cooperative system, or of analysis approaches about feedback of experience. To do so, contributions are detailed in different railway organization levels as training, design, operation, or maintenance. There are based on field studies, on simulation environments or on accident reports. They reveal the value of taking the human into account in the control and supervisory loop for the design, the analysis and the evaluation of future railway systems. Human-centered automation can indeed make system more resilient to various risks and threats by including human contributions through different degrees of automation and modalities of human–machine interaction.

本期特刊有助于解决与人为因素相关的挑战，并致力于未来铁路系统的自动化。它通过考虑几种新兴趋势（包括学习系统，自动化等级，协作系统或有关经验反馈的分析方法的设计）来涵盖横向研究主题。为此，在铁路组织的不同级别详细介绍了培训，设计，运营或维护方面的贡献。有基于现场研究，基于模拟环境或基于事故报告的报告。它们揭示了在控制和监督回路中考虑人员的价值，以进行未来铁路系统的设计，分析和评估。