Towards an Accessible City: Removing Functional Barriers to Independent Travel for Blind and Vision-Impaired Residents and Visitors

This study examined the effect that use of Remote Infrared Signage Systems has on performance of blind or vision impaired people when undertaking a variety of bus user tasks, including finding a suburban bus stop, identifying a specific bus and boarding it, disembarking at the downtown terminal and finding the entrance, traversing the terminal and learning the location of facilities inside and simulating the exiting of a buss.

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Year of publication:	1999-09-01
Authors:	Golledge, Reginald G. ; Marston, James R.
Institutions:	Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California-Berkeley
Subject:	Blind-California-Santa Barbara-Transportation \| Visually handicapped-California-Santa Barbara-Transportation \| Buses-California-Santa Barbara-Access for the physically handicapped \| Infrared detectors

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Institute of Transportation Studies (UCB)
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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