Developing a Serious Game for Rail Services: Improving Passenger Information During Disruption (PIDD)

Ben Clegg; Richard Orme; Panagiotis Petridis

doi:10.3390/info14080464

Developing a Serious Game for Rail Services: Improving Passenger Information During Disruption (PIDD)

Ben Clegg^*, Richard Orme, Panagiotis Petridis

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Abstract

Managing passenger information during disruption (PIDD) is a significant factor in running effective and quick-to-recover rail operations. Disruptions are unpredictable, and their timely resolution is ultimately dependent on the expert knowledge of experienced frontline staff. The development of frontline employees by their employers usually takes the form of practice reviews and ‘on-the-job’ learning, while academic education majors on theoretical approaches and classroom-based teaching. This paper reports on a novel industry-funded project that has developed a serious game (the ‘Rail Disruption Game’) that combines theory and practice to better manage PIDD for frontline staff in a UK train operating company (TOC). It defines challenges and the development method for the Rail Disruption Game; it also incorporates developer and user feedback. This paper provides insight into how to design, make and deploy a serious game as part of a gamified management process.

Original language	English
Article number	464
Number of pages	17
Journal	Information (Switzerland)
Volume	14
Issue number	8
Early online date	17 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/info14080464
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Funding Information: This research was funded by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB). Reference, TOC’15.

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business games
game-based learning
playful experiences
serious games

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