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

Reginald G. Golledge and James R. Marston

Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Blind--California--Santa Barbara--Transportation; Visually handicapped--California--Santa Barbara--Transportation; Buses--California--Santa Barbara--Access for the physically handicapped; Infrared detectors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-09-01
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