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Harmful influence of human factor upon industrial processes and while vehicles running control necessitates to search for ways of its minimizing or total elimination. During the trials of ergatic system “locomotive team – brigade” assessment of informative functioning capacity of machinist is done with experimentally-statistic method. According to the research done the total number of signals that influence on locomotive brigade in process of movement makes approximately 20000 for during one trip, and the number of signals indicating abnormal situation reaches 165 for one trip. In time of train movement the period of signal processing lays at such interval – 0,3с < tос < 11с. It was stated during calculations with given assumptions that informative functioning capacity of a locomotive brigade approaches the threshold values, which constitute  2-4 bps. Received model allows to evaluate parameters of  informative functioning capacity on a locomotive brigade in contrast to the information which should be obtained by a machinist in process of taking management decisions.  This enables to define the ways of a locomotive brigade informative functioning capacity decrease.