Sensing discomfort levels of standing passengers in a public rail transportation systems through a smart phone
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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 are collected and analyzed. Based on a logistic regression model to analyze the data, a discomfort index is introduced, which can be used to compare various rail lines based on ride comfort. Also, in any given rail line, a method for predicting the discomfort of passengers based on the acceleration values is proposed.
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