Current challenges in accessing public transport

For visually challenged people, public transport remains the only viable mobility option to seek education and work.

• In public buses, the route number is displayed on the front top panel of the bus. Hence, a blind person can hear a bus approaching the bus stop, but does not know its number which makes it difficult for him/her to board the bus.
• A number of buses can arrive together and line up arbitrarily at the bus stop. Thus, even after identification the user cannot navigate towards the bus since he/she is unsure about its physical location.

Concept

Our team has developed a system to solve this day-to-day problem faced by the visually challenged. It consists of two modules: (i) User Module, carried by the user, (ii) Bus Module, placed at the entry of each bus.

• Once the user hears a bus approaching the bus stop, he/she presses the Query Button on the User Module which transmits a radio-frequency (RF) signal to all the buses in the vicinity. Each bus module responds by transmitting its route number. All numbers received are sequentially spoken out by the user module.
• The user selects the bus number of interest by pressing the Select Button after that number is read out. This triggers voice output of the bus number from the entry of the selected bus that acts as an auditory cue and assists the person in moving towards the gate of the bus.

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