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CTOnews.com, July 21 (Xinhua)-- when it comes to the New York subway, CTOnews.com friends may have a stereotyped "dirty and messy" impression, and local authorities are preparing to solve these problems. Considering that there are too many ticket evaders and repeated bans, the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced this week that it will use the AI system on the New York subway to track passengers who evade tickets.

▲ source NBC according to foreign media NBC, MTA has installed the AI system in seven subway stations, which was developed by Spanish software company AWAAIT. MTA plans to expand the system to more stations by the end of this year.

AWAAIT said the "real-time analysis system" installed in the subway station would help staff to "use more methods" to solve the problem of ticket evasion. The company claims that the camera installed above the ticket gate can monitor multiple gates at the same time and has "quite high" accuracy. Once an offending passenger is found, an alarm will be issued immediately so that the staff can quickly get to the scene to deal with it.

It is reported that the system can track passengers who evade tickets using "various methods", including passing under the turnstile, skipping directly over the gate, or forcibly opening emergency exits. During the trial operation of the system, MTA found that 12% of ticket evaders squeezed under the gate and 20% skipped the turnstile. More than 50% of the malicious passengers forcibly opened the emergency exit door and swaggered out.

▲ Tu Yuan NBCMTA claims that the use of this technology can effectively solve the problem of ticket evasion of up to 690 million US dollars (CTOnews.com) in subway operation. However, civil society organizations are concerned that this AI-based identification system may endanger passengers' rights, so they suggest that MTA should focus more on traffic operation rather than on these "details".

MTA said it would not share the data with the police, but civil society organizations were still opposed to it. However, officials have expressed support for MTA, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul has previously said that he will further enhance the safety of public transport, including the installation of surveillance cameras in every subway car. The governor announced last year that the New York City transportation system already has more than 10000 surveillance cameras.

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