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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2016
Hitachi, Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Rajesh Vellore Arumugam, Singapore, SG;
Wujuan Lin, Singapore, SG;
Yutaka Kudo, Singapore, SG;
Su Hnin Wut Yi, Singapore, SG;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to various embodiments, there is provided a passenger load prediction system including: a component configured to detect a wireless device carried by a passenger on a train or a train station platform, the train including a plurality of train cars; a passenger to train car mapper configured to determine a location of the passenger, based on a location of the wireless device; a destination predictor configured to predict a destination of the passenger, based at least in part on an identifier code of the wireless device; and a train car load level estimator configured to predict a respective passenger load of each train car of the plurality of train cars, based on the predicted destination and further based on the determined location of the passenger.