Smart move to aid disabled travellers

08 October 2008

Cambridgeshire’s Guided Busway will pilot the first implementation of a personalised smartcard aimed at helping disabled travellers, when it opens in 2009.

Real-time passenger information (RTPI) specialist, ACIS, is equipping 24 stops along the route with information terminals incorporating a London Oyster-style payment interface. The terminals will be able to read impairment information encoded on to the cards.

They will then reconfigure RTPI displays to use larger characters, or give additional audio ‘next departure’ messages, as ‘requested’ by passengers with sight problems. Encoding of cards will use software developed by SmartCitizen, whose previous projects include the Bolton Citizen Card and Cornish Key Card.

The process will typically take place at public libraries.

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