The Tube: Going Underground C5 - what does this do?

[stuartbaggs]

Interested in what this screen the guy is touching in the control room does.

Looks intriguing.

Anyone know?

 

[455driver]

Its the coffee machine!

 

[Camden]

If you look at the screen above it, you can see there is a live feed from the station corridor.

Each button represents an individual commuter, and the operator can use these buttons to move them about the station, and get them to various trains. They can also do things like get them to read a newspaper, look at their mobile phone, play a game, eat an apple, talk to other commuters, and so forth. Some of these things increase or decrease their levels of happiness.

With well over a million passenger journeys every day on the Tube, I'm sure you can imagine this must be an intense operation.

It looks to me as if the operator may be making the commuter on the left of the screen run for a train.

 

[andos]

Nah I think he's pressing the "be incredibly rude to another passenger" button! That one seems to be permanently pressed down lately!

 

[Mikey C]

It's where they control the buskers, and select which song their play

In the photo he's about to tell the busker at Oxford Circus (on the passageway between the Victoria/Bakerloo lines and Central Lines to play "Here comes the sun" as it's a nice day outside.

 

[eastwestdivide]

Sorry to be sensible for a moment, but is he actually touching something (as on a touchscreen), or just pointing to help steady his eye on one line out of many similar lines of data? I can't tell from the still, and I didn't see the programme.

 

[Zoidberg]

If you look at the screen above it, you can see there is a live feed from the station corridor.

Each button represents an individual commuter, and the operator can use these buttons to move them about the station, and get them to various trains. They can also do things like get them to read a newspaper, look at their mobile phone, play a game, eat an apple, talk to other commuters, and so forth. Some of these things increase or decrease their levels of happiness.

With well over a million passenger journeys every day on the Tube, I'm sure you can imagine this must be an intense operation.

It looks to me as if the operator may be making the commuter on the left of the screen run for a train.

Nice one. It raised a smile.

 

[47513 Severn]

Sorry to be sensible for a moment, but is he actually touching something (as on a touchscreen), or just pointing to help steady his eye on one line out of many similar lines of data? I can't tell from the still, and I didn't see the programme.

It looks very much like a touch screen with distinct boxes to touch as can be found on TVM screens.

The adjacent microphone makes me suspect it might be an interface for the PA/automated announcement system but I don't know for certain.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Could he be selecting an individual CCTV camera for a closer look? i.e. bring one up from thumbnail to full screen?