prEN 16186-7

Railway applications - Driver's cab - Part 7: Design of displays for tram vehicles prEN 16186-7

Scope

This document is applicable to vehicles operating on tram networks.
This document specifies all necessary design rules and associated assessment criteria as well as guidance concerning the design of information and the corresponding user interfaces of driver’s cabs of tram vehicles.
It considers the tasks the driver has to carry out and human factors. This document specifies how information is arranged and displayed.
All assessments based on the normative requirements of this document are applicable mainly to:
- symbols provided by Annex A;
- arrangement of screen areas conform with Figure 1 (generic organization of information);
- colours, fonts;
- audible information.
This document is applicable to the following aspects:
- legibility and intelligibility of displayed information: general rules concerning the layout of information on the displays, including character size and spacing;
- definition of harmonized colours, symbols, etc.;
- definition of harmonized principles for the command interface (by physical or touchscreen buttons): size, symbols, reaction time, way to give feedback to the driver, etc.;
- general arrangements (dialogue structures, sequences, layout philosophy, colour philosophy), symbols, audible information, data entry arrangements.
NOTE If this document deals with how information can be given for operation and in degraded situations, it does not define operating rules and degraded situations.
This document does not request any safety requirement related with displayed information.
This document specifies minimum requirements and does not prevent more complex solutions.
Requirements describing the functions using the display are out of scope of this document.