Multi-carriage vehicle boarding recommendations

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle;
• for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate;
• obtaining location information of a passenger from a mobile computing device of the passenger;
• generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages and the location information of the passenger, a boarding guide that comprises a personalized boarding location for the passenger for boarding the multi-carriage vehicle;
• and
• providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device of the mobile computing device configured to assist with boarding the passenger on the multi-carriage vehicle.

One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle;
• for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate;
• obtaining location information of a passenger from a mobile computing device of the passenger;
• generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages and the location information of the passenger, a boarding guide that comprises a personalized boarding location for the passenger for boarding the multi-carriage vehicle;
• and
• providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device of the mobile computing device configured to assist with boarding the passenger on the multi-carriage vehicle.