Multi-carriage vehicle boarding recommendations
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating and presenting the boarding guides to assist passengers with boarding a multi-carriage vehicle. One of the methods includes receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle; for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate; generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages, a boarding guide for the multi-carriage vehicle; and providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device configured to assist with boarding passengers on the multi-carriage vehicle.
1 . A method comprising:
receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle;
for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate;
obtaining location information of a passenger from a mobile computing device of the passenger;
generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages and the location information of the passenger, a boarding guide that comprises a personalized boarding location for the passenger for boarding the multi-carriage vehicle; and
providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device of the mobile computing device configured to assist with boarding the passenger on the multi-carriage vehicle.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle comprise one or more of: a millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensor, an ultra-wide band (UWB) sensor, a thermal sensor, a pressure sensor, or an optical sensor.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle comprise one or more image sensors.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate comprises:
determining an estimated number of onboard passengers who will exit the carriage at a next stop of the multi-carriage vehicle.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the display device comprises a visual display device of the mobile computing device.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the display device comprises an audio display device of the mobile computing device.
7 . A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle;
for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate;
obtaining location information of a passenger from a mobile computing device of the passenger;
generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages and the location information of the passenger, a boarding guide that comprises a personalized boarding location for the passenger for boarding the multi-carriage vehicle; and
providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device of the mobile computing device configured to assist with boarding the passenger on the multi-carriage vehicle.
8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle comprise one or more of: a millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensor, an ultra-wide band (UWB) sensor, a thermal sensor, a pressure sensor, or an optical sensor.
9 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle comprise one or more image sensors.
10 . The system of claim 7 , wherein determining the estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate comprises:
determining an estimated number of onboard passengers who will exit the carriage at a next stop.
11 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the display device comprises a visual display device of the mobile computing device.
12 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the display device comprises an audio display device of the mobile computing device.
13 . One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle;
for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate;
obtaining location information of a passenger from a mobile computing device of the passenger;
generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages and the location information of the passenger, a boarding guide that comprises a personalized boarding location for the passenger for boarding the multi-carriage vehicle; and
providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device of the mobile computing device configured to assist with boarding the passenger on the multi-carriage vehicle.
14 . The computer storage media of claim 13 , wherein the one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle comprise one or more of: a millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensor, an ultra-wide band (UWB) sensor, a thermal sensor, a pressure sensor, or an optical sensor.
15 . The computer storage media of claim 13 , wherein the one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle comprise one or more image sensors.
16 . The computer storage media of claim 13 , wherein determining the estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate comprises:
determining an estimated number of onboard passengers who will exit the carriage at a next stop.
17 . The computer storage media of claim 13 , wherein the display device comprises one or both of: a visual display device of the mobile computing device, or an audio display device of the mobile computing device.
18 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the estimated number of additional passengers comprises:
executing a first processing step that processes information generated by a first subset of the plurality of sensors to determine whether the carriage is occupied; and
in response to determining that the carriage is occupied, executing a second processing step that processes information generated by a second subset of the plurality of sensors to determine a number of passengers located within the carriage.
19 . The system of claim 7 , wherein determining the estimated number of additional passengers comprises:
executing a first processing step that processes information generated by a first subset of the plurality of sensors to determine whether the carriage is occupied; and
in response to determining that the carriage is occupied, executing a second processing step that processes information generated by a second subset of the plurality of sensors to determine a number of passengers located within the carriage.
20 . The computer storage media of claim 13 , wherein determining the estimated number of additional passengers comprises:
executing a first processing step that processes information generated by a first subset of the plurality of sensors to determine whether the carriage is occupied; and
in response to determining that the carriage is occupied, executing a second processing step that processes information generated by a second subset of the plurality of sensors to determine a number of passengers located within the carriage.