Mobility hubs occupy a pivotal role in the transportation industry. Train stations, bus stations, airports, and public transit hubs serve a pivotal role for millions of journeys every year, yet managing them effectively poses a significant challenge due to the lack of essential data, analysis, and tools, leading to a disconnect between station design and real-time and anticipatory operation. To address these challenges this article explains how 3D people centric digital twins are providing a breakthrough solution.
From an article by Ouster.
Customers and travelers are often faced with uncomfortable, frustrating, and dangerous situations due to inadequately informed processes. However, as near perfect people measurement and crowd analytic data begins to emerge, thanks to technologies like lidar and Ouster’s perception software, Gemini, Open Space has created an innovative solution that ensures customer experience maintains a central role in the future of mobility hub design, planning, optimization, and operation.
The Challenge
Mobility hubs are vital to our transportation system, but their seamless operation has been hindered by persistent challenges. Professionals responsible for these hubs grapple with a shortage of crucial data and tools needed for informed decision-making. Bridging the gap between the initial design phase and the dynamic operational reality is extraordinarily complex and is frequently overlooked.
Day to day operations are likewise negatively impacted by the lack of data and decision making tools. Station managers are frequently left to reactive fixes for problems they observe in real time as opposed to proactively adapting based on impending scenarios that only data can predict.
The Solution
Open Space takes an innovative approach to address these challenges. Their people-centric digital twin platform integrates lidar sensing and perception with their unique suite of tools to measure the impact of crowd behavior on station operation. This integration illuminates a path to data-driven insights, offering a solution for the complex dynamics of people flow within mobility hubs.
Results
Open Space’s solutions have brought about remarkable transformations within mobility hubs:
1. Real-Time Passenger Monitoring and Synthetic Environments
Tracking real-time movements of individuals using advanced computer vision technology.
The Rapid creation of fully annotated 3D representations of stations or airports.
Integration of diverse data sources, from train and bus arrivals to Wi-Fi analytics and gateline counts.
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