Measuring Bus Passenger Load by Monitoring Wi-Fi Transmissions from Mobile Devices
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Uneven loading of busses degrades passengers’ travel experience for a variety of reasons. Load balancing for busses requires information about the load, both the potential passenger load at the bus stop and the actual load currently aboard travelling busses. This paper describes a feasibility study for measuring bus passenger loads by detecting the periodic network probing activity from WiFi devices built into ‘smart phones’. Our experimental results show that WiFi activity does correlate with observed passenger flow at bus stops and the load aboard a bus while en route.
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Most validation of Wi-Fi-based counting systems has been done either in controlled environments or only over short periods.
“To the best of our knowledge, most validation of these Wi-Fi-based counting systems has been done either in controlled environments or only over short periods (Nitti et al. 2020; Oransirikul et al. 2014).”
From A low-cost automatic people-counting system at bus stops using Wi-Fi probe requests and deep learning (2025) · cites this paper as Oransirikul et al. 2014
Oransirikul et al. (2014) collected data for only 70 min, with 60 min for counting people at the bus stop.
“Oransirikul et al. (2014), who collected data for only 70 min, with 60 min for counting people at the bus stop.”
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- Authors
- Oransirikul, T., Nishide, R., Piumarta, I., & Takada, H.
- Affiliations
- Ritsumeikan University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Piumarta, Ian
- Venue
- Procedia Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 18
- Pages
- 120-125
- ISSN
- 2212-0173 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1968429208
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 2.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Procedia Technology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Wireless Networks and Protocols
- Keywords
- mobile devices, passenger flow, bus stops
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