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Passenger Detection Though Video Processing And Signal Sensors In The Boston Subway To Address Left-Behind Passengers, Andronikos Keklikoglou

Transportation Engineering Masters Projects

Crowding is one the most common problems for public transportation systems worldwide. It has been proven to cause anxiety to commuters and create reliability problems when commuters are not able to board on the first train or bus that arrives. These commuters are referred as left-behind passengers, and their number is directly related to various basic performance measures of public transportation systems that represent the user’s experience. Among these measures the most significant are ridership, service quality and, more importantly, travel time. Identifying left behind passengers is a tool to address crowding in stations and respond appropriately, by applying various …