Augmented Reality Dispatcher Interface

Train dispatchers could use Augmented Reality (AR) to view their current displays in 3D. Such an interface would allow dispatchers to use hand and head movements, along with voice commands, to manage the same things that they do currently on their multi-monitor displays, such as track diagrams, alarms, train and station information, and setting of train movements.

The TRB IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) Program's Transit IDEA Final Report 92: Augmented Reality Dispatcher Interface summarizes a proof of concept project on the viability of leveraging AR as a new user interface for train dispatching.