Indian Railways to Use AI for Crowd Control in Kumbh Mela in Allahabad

Indian Railways will apply applied science, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), in a large way to tackle the massive blitz of passengers during the upcoming Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, for which it will deploy as many as 800 special trains.

IBM Intelligent Video Analytics will be pressed into service, a get-go for the Railways, for crowd control at stations and its adjoining areas during the Ardh Kumbh Mela.

Kumbh Rail Seva, a new mobile App, will soon be launched to disseminate information to train users and others travelling to the globe's largest religious event, which is expected to concenter over a 100 million people — a number higher than the populations of most countries on globe.

"We take finalised the action program for this Kumbh Mela taking all possible factors into consideration," North Central Railway General Manager Rajeev Choudhury told IANS.

With the 2013 stampede fresh in mind, the national transporter is not leaving anything to chance and is focusing mainly on oversupply management at the main junction and its adjoining stations.

"Nosotros volition be using the engineering in a significant fashion to facilitate crowd movement in a smoothen way," Choudhury said, adding: "While IBM will provide video analytics service using Artificial Intelligence for crowd control, there volition be large number powerful CCTV cameras to monitor the situation and LED screens for displaying data."

Also, social media volition exist extensively used for keeping the pilgrims updated on a real-time basis.

More than 5,000 Authorities Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel will be deployed to manage the crowd motility at 10 stations in and effectually the city, including Allahabad, Prayag, Prayag Ghat, Jhunsi, Naini, Cheoki and Allahabad City.

The Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati rivers, will brainstorm from Jan 15 and conclude March iv, 2019.

Considered one of the largest gatherings of people in the world, more than 100 1000000 devotees and Hindu ascetics are expected to attend the about two-calendar month-long Kumbh Mela to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganga river.

According to the land government, 12 million pilgrims are expected on Jan 15 (Makar Sankranti), 5.five million on Januray 21 (Paush Purnima), thirty million on Feb 4 (Mauni Amavasya), xx million on February 10 (Basant Panchami), 16 million on February 19 (Maghi Purnima), and 6 one thousand thousand on March four (Mahashivratri).

Acknowledging the size and grandeur of the congregration, Choudhury said: "It is no dubiousness challenging to manage the rush at stations simply we are confident of making information technology a successful and smooth effect."

Shut coordination with state administration is some other step that the Railways is pursuing to make the issue a success.

Work is underway to brand operational a new platform, a foot-over bridge and skywalks, among other infrastructure projects, at the stations to ensure hassle-free movement of passengers.

He said the aim is to decongest all possible crowded places so that people coming from different directions tin move towards the bathing ghats and return safely. Each station volition accept its own traffic direction plan.

The timings of 800 special trains will be published soon.

Source: https://beebom.com/indian-railway-ai-crowd-control-kumbh-mela/

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