privacy crusader protesting Delta's involvement in a federal government passenger-monitoring program.
Pekoske said that out of the "thousands of passengers" monitored, no arrests have been made, the program "hasn't foiled any threat," and yet data is kept on travelers for at least two years in case it's proven useful in the future.
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration, already under scrutiny after one of its agents was shot to death at Los Angeles International Airport this month, has spent nearly $1 billion on a passenger behavior monitoring program that has not been scientifically proven to work, a key government watchdog agency said Thursday.
The rest goes toward the installation of new backseat "passenger information monitors".
These will help to develop new added value e-safety applications like enriched emergency calls, driver and passengers wellness monitoring, and so forth.
In 2004, TLC promulgated rules requiring taxicabs that had been awarded TLC medallions, as well as so-called street-hale liveries, to install passenger information monitors.
The passenger information monitors over the aisle in the carriages show a clock and the train's current speed in addition to VR's marketing material and station information.
Passengers were monitored by thermal cameras that detect high body temperature, and 15 isolation rooms were set up to hold any suspicious cases at the airport in the city of Jeddah.
Passengers can monitor the route being taken if it is displayed on a smartphone screen, and they can more easily file a complaint or score the driver lower on the app's rating system if they're displeased with the service.
Meanwhile, a small team of volunteers took just 10 days last summer to create an Apple iPad app that uses Global Positioning System technology to track all of the city's buses in real time, allowing transit managers and passengers to monitor problems and delays.
In [17], Paletta et al. present a video surveillance system for monitoring passenger flows at public transportation junctions based on a network of video cameras.
