Two conductors, two numbers
Counting sixty boarding passengers while collecting fares and watching the door is not something a person does accurately, and neither count can be checked afterwards.
Transport & mobility
Passenger counting & ridership data
AI door cameras count every boarding and alighting by door and by stop, so ridership stops being an estimate and starts being a record.
Where it hurts today
The problem this is built for
Decisions built on estimates
How many units to dispatch, which trips to cut, what to report to the regulator — all resting on a number nobody can audit.
Nothing to reconcile fares against
Without a passenger count, a shortfall in remittance has no comparison figure, so every explanation is a guess.
Franchise applications with no evidence
Defending a route or arguing for a fare adjustment goes differently when the ridership figure is measured rather than asserted.
How it works
Four steps, in this order
- 01
Camera per door
Counting cameras match your door count — two on a two-door bus, one on a one-door bus. Nothing more is fitted than the vehicle needs.
- 02
Door-triggered counting
The count starts when the door opens and stops when it closes, so every count ties to an actual boarding event.
- 03
Onboard processing
The recorder computes the count on the vehicle. Cellular dead zones and tunnels do not interrupt it; data buffers and syncs when signal returns.
- 04
Calibration and field validation
Camera geometry is set for your specific vehicle type and checked against manual verification counts before the unit is signed off.
What gets installed
Hardware and software
- AI MDVR recorder
- Passenger counting cameras (one per door)
- GPS and cellular antennas
- Fleet management platform
- Transport analytics
Exact models are specified against your site. Read range, tag material and mounting all change the answer.
What you get back
Outcomes
- 97–98% counting accuracy in live deployment
- Boarding curves by route, direction and hour
- Live occupancy per vehicle on the fleet map
- The same cameras serve as onboard security
Scope this against your own site
Send us the operation, the site and what is going wrong in it. We come back with a scope and a number, or we tell you it is not a fit.