New NextBus Product: Real-time Count of Riders on Every Bus

Filed Under Feature Stories, Municipal Transit, Real-time Passenger Information Systems, University Transit

We have added an automated passenger counting tool to our suite of products. Now you will know–in real-time just how many riders you have on every vehicle and on every route.

Here are the New Passenger Counter Capabilities:

The Real Time Passenger Information (RTPI) system also can add an optional Automatic Passenger Counter (APC), which includes the following features:

Active infrared sensors
Fully automatic passenger detection
Logs the number of passengers that board and alight at each stop
Real-time update of passenger counts
Real-time passenger count delivered to AVL
APC report

The APC report shows the number of passengers that board a vehicle at each stop on the route. The report will show the date, time, vehicle ID, route ID, driver ID, number of passengers who boarded, number of passengers who alighted and the total passenger count at the moment the vehicle leaves the stop. This report can be used by managers to determine passenger load for the purpose of adjusting routes and times to prevent overloading of the vehicles.

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