AI trial launches at TfL Underground stations to boost passenger safety | News UK [Video]

An artificial intelligence trial is being rolled out at some London stations to detect people on tracks.

Whether you welcome the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology or are against it, it has crept into our daily lives.

Now TfL is deploying AI cameras to help prevent passenger incidents on the Tube network.

AI-based technology to boost passenger safety has been previously tested on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) network and at Willesden Green Underground station.

TfL said it is ‘prioritising work’ to test the technology on the London Underground.

The technology will use AI to spot objects on the rails, including people who have fallen or jumped on tracks, but it will ignore the usual movement of trains.

Station staff will then be alerted to the incident to help prevent a tragedy.

The technology is already being tested on the DLR at Custom House station. DLR’s operator Keolis Amey Docklands has already trialled the AI solution called CCTV AI trial.

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