Estimating on-board passenger comfort in public transport vehicles using incomplete automatic passenger counting data
The prevention of crowding inside buses, trams and trains is an important component of on-board passenger comfort and is central to the provision of good public transport services. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated significant reduction in public transport patronage and, more importantly, in passenger confidence, the avoidance of crowds by passengers and operators alike becomes even more critical. This is where the provision of information on on-board comfort becomes a necessity. The present study, therefore, proposes a new Kalman filter based estimation scheme for on-board comfort levels, employing historical and current (same-day) non-exhaustive Automatic Passenger Counting data, as well as Automatic Vehicle Locating measurements. The accuracy and reliability of the estimation is, then, evaluated through application to the tramway network of the French city of Nantes. The results suggest that the proposed method is able to deliver good estimation accuracy, both in terms of absolute passenger numbers, but also, more crucially, in terms of on-board comfort Levels of Service.
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- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Roncoli, Claudio
- Chandakas, Ektoras
- Kaparias, Ioannis
- Publication Date: 2023-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 103963
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Volume: 146
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0968-090X
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: COVID-19; Crowds; Kalman filtering; Level of service; Passenger comfort; Passenger counting; Public transit
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01870157
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 19 2023 11:24AM