Sensing discomfort of standing passengers in public rail transportation systems using a smart phone

Author

George, Thommen Karimpanal ; Gadhia, Harit Maganlal ; Sukumar, Ruben S. O. ; Cabibihan, John-John

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2013

fDate

12-14 June 2013

Firstpage

1509

Lastpage

1513

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the effect of acceleration on the discomfort of standing passengers. The acceleration levels from different public rail transport lines such as the mass rapid transits (MRTs) and light rail transits (LRTs) of Singapore, as well as the associated qualitative data indicating the discomfort of standing passengers were collected and analyzed. Based on a logistic regression model to analyze the data, a discomfort index was introduced, which can be used to compare various rail lines based on ride comfort. A method for predicting the discomfort of passengers based on the acceleration values was proposed for any given train line.

Keywords

railways; regression analysis; smart phones; discomfort index; discomfort sensing; light rail transits; logistic regression model; mass rapid transits; public rail transportation systems; ride comfort; smart phone; standing passengers; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Equations; Indexes; Mathematical model; Rail transportation; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation (ICCA), 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

ISSN

1948-3449

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4707-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCA.2013.6565130

Filename

6565130