A method is for controlling the occupancy of the seats of one or more vehicle(s) by passengers using a control device for controlling the occupancy of the seats. The vehicle includes a number of seats equipped with a reading light. The control device includes each reading light, a control system for controlling the reading lights and a controller. The method includes an emission of at least one piece of data related to the seat toward an electronic device of a passenger of the vehicle. The piece of data is emitted using a wireless optical communication technique, which is a technique of visible light communication. The emission of the at least one piece of data related to the seat is carried out by the reading light of the seat controlled by the control system.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating and presenting the boarding guides to assist passengers with boarding a multi-carriage vehicle. One of the methods includes receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle; for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate; generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages, a boarding guide for the multi-carriage vehicle; and providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device configured to assist with boarding passengers on the multi-carriage vehicle.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating and presenting the boarding guides to assist passengers with boarding a multi-carriage vehicle. One of the methods includes receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle; for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate; generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages, a boarding guide for the multi-carriage vehicle; and providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device configured to assist with boarding passengers on the multi-carriage vehicle.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating and presenting the boarding guides to assist passengers with boarding a multi-carriage vehicle. One of the methods includes receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle; for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate; generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages, a boarding guide for the multi-carriage vehicle; and providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device configured to assist with boarding passengers on the multi-carriage vehicle.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating and presenting the boarding guides to assist passengers with boarding a multi-carriage vehicle. One of the methods includes receiving, at one or more computing devices, information indicative of occupancy of a plurality of carriages of a multi-carriage vehicle, wherein the information is based on data captured using one or more sensors deployed within the multi-carriage vehicle; for each of the plurality of carriages, determining, based on processing the received information, an estimated number of additional passengers the corresponding carriage can accommodate; generating, based on the corresponding estimated numbers of additional passengers for each of the plurality of carriages, a boarding guide for the multi-carriage vehicle; and providing the boarding guide for presentation on a display device configured to assist with boarding passengers on the multi-carriage vehicle.