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With help from a Google.org grant, Perkins School for the Blind is embarking on a groundbreaking project that will change the way people who are blind or visually impaired access public transportation.
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Perkins anticipates using crowdsourcing to provide detailed navigation clues to bring users to within four to five feet — the standard length of a white cane — of their precise destination.
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After this initial application, the new insights will drive the development of a mobile application specifically tailored for blind or visually impaired riders.
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RTC specialists can teach clients — in a group or one-to-one setting — how to use public transit safely and efficiently in a contained environment that simulates the outdoors.
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The Wayfindr uses beacon technology to guide vision impaired people through and around urban environments using their smartphones.
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Trekker Breeze + will be installed on every Victoria Regional Transit bus starting this fall, which will provide clear and precise GPS annunciation of stop on transit, helping visually-impaired individuals to easily find their way around town
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New features include a flashing screen for trip requests, as opposed to previous audible-only beeps, and the ability to turn off the option for users to call deaf drivers — users will only be able to text them
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute is aiming to incorporate robots, smartphones, mobile applications and crowd-sourced information into a system that can help blind people navigate complicated and unfamiliar urban environments, such as transit stations.
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About a dozen members of the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan, some with canes and service dogs, gathered outside the terminal for about two hours on Sunday displaying hand-lettered signs like “We are not second-class citizens,” “Safety for Seniors” and “Equal Rights for Disabled Travelers.”
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Bus drivers say the practice puts passenger safety at risk, because it is "an undue distraction."
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