Design of Passenger Information System and Smart Passenger Crowdedness Avoidance: Case of AALRT
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit is playing a prominent role in alleviating the city’s
transportation problem. Currently, it only has an onboard passenger information system, and
there is no wayside passenger information system. Consequently, passengers waiting at the
station are unable to know if a train is coming, the estimated arrival time of the train, the
crowdedness level on the train and whether the train is single or coupled. The other challenge
is that on pick hours there exist a high passenger crowdedness on the trains which makes the
service unintentionally unfair as only who can survive the high congestion on the train use
the service.
The primary objective of this thesis is to avoid the existing passenger information system
problems of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit by devising a reliable passenger information
system and come up with a cost-effective solution for the current passenger over crowdedness
problem. Hence, a passenger information system was designed by developing a website, an
Android application and station displays which will all show the available space on the next
train, the number of passengers expected to get off on that station, and its estimated remaining
time of arrival. The simulation result showed that we achieved the stated objective as it can
give detail information about the train for each passengers waiting at the stations. In addition
to this, we introduced a passenger overcrowding solution. It is a passenger counting system
that will put a limit on passengers getting on a train when the train load exceeds its carrying
capacity. Android based point of sale (POS) ticketing device is proposed to be used as a
passenger counter and ticketing at the same time. It is expected that the current manual ticketing
problems encountered by Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit can be solved by this device.
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passenger information system (PIS), Over Crowdedness avoidance, Android-based POS ticketing device, AALRT