When I was travelling for the first time in Mumbai Local I noticed something unexpected. The orientation of platforms to get down from train, is different at different stations. For one station the crowd faced left and for the next faced right. Being novice this annoyed me as there were no means by which I could know my station and the direction of platform other than asking.

This experience led to the inception of thought behind this project – “How the real time information would be designed for Futuristic Mumbai local trains, served inside the high-tech compartments for the future passengers”. The real time information is usually conveyed by Passenger Information Display System (PIDS). The project doesn’t aim to solve any current problems but will take inspirations from same problems and visualise the future of info design for PIDS, specially catered to the Indian situations (multilingual; language barrier; chaos and crowd inside trains; lack of information system)

The first part of the project introduces the Passenger Information Display System (PIDS), its role in the public transport and my area of focus in this design project.

The second part looks at the main conditions that shape this project, such as current scenario of Mumbai local compartments, needs of the user from the novice perspective and the necessary information.

The final part discusses the design and decisions(both visual design and motion design) performed to accomplish the project.

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