Analyzing Wifi signal to understand how passengers move in the station.
More than 500 million passengers use train stations in Paris every year. Around 100 million of them pass through Gare de Lyon. When connected to Wi-Fi at the station, passengers leave behind their digital traces.
Using a sample of 57,000 users collected during one week, this ongoing collaboration between SNCF Gares & Connexions and MIT Senseable City Lab studies the footprint that people leave in space to understand passenger behavior and enhance user experience at train stations.
One Week in Gare de Lyon
Explore passenger trajectories and lengths of stay at Gare de Lyon.
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Users
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■ Arrivals
■ Departures
■ Commuting
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Information
Trajectory
Network of trajectories among zones in the station
Length of stay
Heatmap of lengths of stay per zone in the station
Users per hour of the day
Evolution of the length of stay during the day
Mouse over the zones in the map to compare the lengths of stay in each area of the station. Data in minutes.
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Ground level
Level -1
Mouse over the circles to see the zones connected to that area of the station
Trajectories from
Total users:
Destination
Zone overview
Total users:
Mean duration: minutes
team
MIT SENSEABLE CITY LAB
Carlo Ratti, Director
Fábio Duarte, Project Manager
Bill Cai, Researcher
Lenna Johnsen, Researcher
Qianhui Liang, Researcher
Zhoutong Wang, Researcher
Yuji Yoshimura, Post-doctoral researcher
Sarah Campbell, Visualization, Web
Louis Charron, Researcher, Designer
Irene de la Torre Arenas, Visualization
Snoweria Zhang, Designer
SNCF
Laurent Papiernik, Chief Data Officer
Etienne Burdet, Smart City Officer - AREP
The material on this website can be used freely in any publication provided that:
1. It is duly credited as a project by the MIT Senseable City Lab
2. A PDF copy of the publication is sent to senseable-press@mit.edu
additional material
Zhoutong Wang, Qianhui Liang, Fabio Duarte, Fan Zhang, Louis Charron, Lenna Johnsen, Bill Cai, Carlo Ratti
Building and Environment, 2019.
The Senseable Guide to Paris 2 — Gare de Lyon
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