Local transport authorities in the Midlands and on the South Coast are heading the queue for lower-cost versions of the talking bus stops installed for visually-impaired public transport users.
Developed by passenger information technology specialist ACIS and the Royal National Institute for Blind People, the new model dispenses with the separate speaker box, currently pole-mounted below the at-stop real-time passenger information display.
The box also contains the trigger board component which intending travellers alert to receive spoken service announcements by using hand-held radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices.
New versions now being laboratory-tested with manufacturers will integrate the box contents into the display sign, reducing their cost from to around £100 a time.
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