US 5,176,082 AGranted

Subway passenger loading control system

OwnerJoong H. Chun, Hanjoo Leeinventors

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Abstract

A passenger detection loading and unloading control system is provided for high volume passenger transporters such as subway trains and the like which electronically counts the passengers in each passenger compartment and prepositions passengers that intend to deboard at the next passenger loading and unloading platform and which electronically counts and prepositions a number of passengers at the next platform for boarding. The system further permits simultaneous loading and unloading of passengers without interference with passenger flow. Passengers on the transporter are numerically counted and those passengers intended to deboard the transporter at the next platform are also counted. Signals representing these counted passengers are continuously transmitted to a signal processing facility for processing. A predetermined time schedule for arrival and departure is established for the high volume passenger transporter in relation to each passenger loading and unloading platform. The processed passenger information from the transporter is communicated to the platform and utilized for controlling maximum loading of the transporter in compliance with the predetermined time schedule so that the transporter system functions in its most efficient passenger handling manner and keeps all transporters operating on the preestablished time schedule.

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Dependent claims

A passenger detection loading and unloading control system for high volume passenger transit systems having passenger transporters each defining at least one passenger compartment for containing boarding and deboarding passengers at successive passenger boarding and deboarding platforms located along a passenger transporter route, comprising:

(a) means defining passenger boarding and deboarding zones within each of said passenger transporters;
(b) an electronic passenger counting system having a plurality of passenger detection sensors in said passenger compartments and on said passenger boarding and deboarding platforms and having a signal processing computer and monitor for substantially identifying the number of passengers entering respective boarding and deboarding zones of each of said passenger compartments to thereby establish in the passenger compartment the number of passengers preparing to deboard at a passenger loading and unloading platform;
(c) means electronically sensing the number of passengers present within said passenger boarding and deboarding zones of said passenger loading and unloading platform;
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(d) means communicating to said signal processing computer signals representing the number of passengers within said passenger deboarding zones of said passenger transporters and the number of passengers located within said passenger boarding zones of said passenger loading and unloading platform and providing the number of passengers allowed within said passenger boarding zones in correspondence to the number of passengers present within said passenger deboarding zones, whereby simultaneous boarding and deboarding of passengers may take place within a minimal time period without risk of passenger overcrowding.

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