Increasing Station Capacity using Behavioral Sciences and Video Analytics
In order to enhance passenger flow and experience at several subway stations, we drew insights from Behavioral Science to identify pain points and design strategic interventions.
Invision’s video analytics was used to evaluate the impact of these interventions.
We were able to get up to 27% more people out of platforms in any given hour, which will help the operator manage capacity into the future.
Example 3D reconstruction of a subway station thereafter used to register existing CCTV cameras to track passengers across the station anonymously.
Example passenger trajectories showing origin to destination across the station
To achieve these objectives, the customer focused on two main goals by addressing proactively the psychological roots of problematic behaviors:
Enhancing
Passenger Flow
Passengers disrupt traffic by stopping to orient themselves:
- in concourses,
- at fare gates,
- around vertical circulation elements.
Learn how you can use Invision’s ‘People Flow’ product to address ‘Enhancing Passenger Capacity’ >>
Speeding up
Boarding and alighting