A video game-inspired approach for a pedestrian guidance system within a railway station

Joseph Preece; Mohamed Samra; Richard J Thomas; John Easton

doi:10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671420

A video game-inspired approach for a pedestrian guidance system within a railway station

Joseph Preece, Mohamed Samra, Richard J Thomas, John Easton

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This paper presents a novel routing system for guiding a pedestrian within a train station, accounting for aspects such as distance, crowd density, and the pedestrian’s accessibility requirements. We achieve this by building a system that takes inspiration from the video games industry; constructing a Three- Dimensional model, annotating the model, generating a graph data structure, and performing pathfinding algorithms to establish the shortest path between two nodes. In particular, we make use of Three-Dimensional scanning technology to build a Digital Twin of Smethwick Galton Bridge station in the United Kingdom.

We then use the spatial data to extract Two-Dimensional floor plans and perform Constrained Delauney Triangulation to compute a navigational mesh. The model then constructs the relevant graph data structure, on which we perform the A* Algorithm to determine the most efficient path between two coordinates within the mesh, where the efficiency is based upon both distance and the crowd density within the station.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Editors	Yixin Chen, Heiko Ludwig, Yicheng Tu, Usama Fayyad, Xingquan Zhu, Xiaohua Hu, Suren Byna, Xiong Liu, Jianping Zhang, Shirui Pan, Vagelis Papalexakis, Jianwu Wang, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Carlos Ordonez
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	2919-2924
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665439022
ISBN (Print)	9781665445993 (PoD)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671420
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2022
Event	2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) - Online Event Duration: 15 Dec 2021 → 18 Dec 2021 https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2021

Publication series

Name	IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2639-1589
ISSN (Electronic)	2573-2978

Conference

Conference	2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Abbreviated title	BigData 2021
Period	15/12/21 → 18/12/21
Internet address	https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2021

Keywords

Extended Reality
Passenger Experience
Pedestrian Guidance
Railways

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J. D. Preece, M. Samra, R. J. Thomas and J. M. Easton, "A Video Game-Inspired Approach for a Pedestrian Guidance System Within a Railway Station," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2021, pp. 2919-2924, doi: 10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671420. © 2021 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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Preece, J., Samra, M., Thomas, R. J., & Easton, J. (2022). A video game-inspired approach for a pedestrian guidance system within a railway station. In Y. Chen, H. Ludwig, Y. Tu, U. Fayyad, X. Zhu, X. Hu, S. Byna, X. Liu, J. Zhang, S. Pan, V. Papalexakis, J. Wang, A. Cuzzocrea, & C. Ordonez (Eds.), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 2919-2924). Article 9671420 (IEEE International Conference on Big Data). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671420

Preece, Joseph ; Samra, Mohamed ; Thomas, Richard J et al. / A video game-inspired approach for a pedestrian guidance system within a railway station. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). editor / Yixin Chen ; Heiko Ludwig ; Yicheng Tu ; Usama Fayyad ; Xingquan Zhu ; Xiaohua Hu ; Suren Byna ; Xiong Liu ; Jianping Zhang ; Shirui Pan ; Vagelis Papalexakis ; Jianwu Wang ; Alfredo Cuzzocrea ; Carlos Ordonez . IEEE, 2022. pp. 2919-2924 (IEEE International Conference on Big Data).

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A video game-inspired approach for a pedestrian guidance system within a railway station

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