Automatic passenger counting and information systems are cost effective as it costs less to collect ridership information via APC units than it does to hire employees for manual collection. Passenger information system is an electronic information system which provides real time passengers information. This includes the predictions about arrival and departure times of transport means.
Automatic passenger counting systems are electronic machines for counting the number of passenger that board and leave at every stop. These systems have replaced schedule checkers that were previously used to manually collect ridership information. Unlike schedule checkers, automatic passenger counting and information systems collect ridership for every single trip operated.
