Announcing an arrival: New app helps visually impaired pedestrians traverse work-zone areas
University of Minnesota researchers have developed a smartphone app that works in conjunction with embedded sensors on the smartphone and Bluetooth technology to provide routing instructions to pedestrians as it detects upcoming work zones. As specified in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), temporary traffic control (TTC) in work zones must accommodate pedestrians with difficulties, with one of the requirements being to provide audible information for the visually impaired. Details of the app's design and function are presented, along with results of functionality testing.
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Authors:
- Liao, Chen-Fu
- Publication Date: 2015-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; Photos;
- Pagination: pp 44, 46, 48-49
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Serial:
- Roads & Bridges
- Volume: 53
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Scranton Gillette Communications
- ISSN: 8750-9229
- Serial URL: http://www.roadsbridges.com/rb/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bluetooth technology; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrians; Smartphones; Visually impaired persons; Web applications; Work zone safety
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01555056
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 26 2015 10:03AM