Human-centered operations in transportation: New foundations for driver safety by a review regarding attention and chronotype

Abstract

Human-centricity is gaining attention and importance in operations management and research due to specific joint advantages for firms and workers. Yet, the accessible knowledge base regarding human operator physiology and psychology is not adequately available to the field of operations management, and a lack of knowledge towards individual differences that affect operational task performance in manufacturing and transportation prevails. In this paper, a structured literature review is conducted analyzing the psychological elements of attention, arousal and chronotype from driving-related application areas to establish a knowledge base for these important elements regarding the health and safety of truck drivers as an important occupational group in transportation and operations. This provides an important contribution as state-of-the-art mapping incorporating neighboring fields like driver physiology, psychology, and medicine in order to inform elaborate Driver 5.0 concepts in line with human-centric operations in transportation and logistics.