This month sees the start of Britain’s first-ever study of the costs and benefits of installing equipment to help people outside London who have disabilities to make better use of public transport.
Running the project for the DfT is the Real-Time Information Group (RTIG) – which merged in April with passenger transport telematics forum INFORM - in association with the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
With all Transport for London’s 8,000 buses now ‘iBUS’-equipped to deliver on-bus audio-visual ‘next stop’ information, the study will look at the barriers to wider implementation and the prospects of greater bus patronage following adoption.
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has already noted increased numbers of visually-impaired Londoners asking for mobility training on using buses. A spokesperson told Surveyor: ‘We welcome this study. Our experience is that appropriate information systems on buses make a huge difference to blind and partially-sighted people’.
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