CQUniversity researcher Dr Anjum Naweed has been gaining worldwide renown for his focus on improving the fidelity of a freight locomotive simulator, after it has been deployed.

This project has been funded by the CRC for Rail Simulation and pertains to the rail simulator now housed at the Appleton Institute (CQUniversity's Adelaide Campus) where Dr Naweed is based.

LINK for a larger image of Dr Anjum Naweed and the 'sternwheeler' location of his conference address

Following his success with Simulation Australia's Body of Knowledge Prize in 2012 (LINK for award details), Dr Naweed presented his research at the Spring Simulation Interoperability Standards Organisation conference in San Diego during April of this year (LINK for conference details).

As keynote speaker he gave an hour-long plenary address on the topic of simulation design and interoperability, on the majestic Victorian William D. Evans sternwheeler (riverboat) at the Bahia Resort Hotel.

Dr Naweed's article has now been accepted for publication in the CRC for Rail Innovation Special Edition of the Journal of Rail & Rapid Transit.

The article reveals several opportunities for improving the fidelity of the simulator for research (and training) applications, but also identifies a number of critical deficiencies in its underlying architecture.

In his paper, Dr Naweed discusses the outcomes of the evaluation in terms of the fidelity expectations of the developer and user, and the tension encountered when trying to adjust these post-deployment.

Lastly, it provides some clarification between what to improve and what can be improved, when the proverbial train has, for all intents and purposes, 'left the station'.

The freight locomotive simulator based at Appleton Institute

LINK also to Considering the 'psychological railway' got Anjum on track for major award