This study examined the effect that use of Remote Infrared Signage Systems has on performance of blind or vision impaired people when undertaking a variety of bus user tasks, including finding a suburban bus stop, identifying a specific bus and boarding it, disembarking at the downtown terminal...

The successful development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) depends on the capability of incorporating a vast amount of information about the location of facilities which generate travel as well as a realistic representation of elements of the transportation network in which travel...

In this paper we review attempts to develop CPM of individual travel behavior. CPM represent a linked set of computer programs together with appropriate databases which are designed to capture the essence of human decision making in different spatial situations. Used primarily for wayfinding and...

An interesting controversy has recently arisen regarding the relative effectiveness of map based versus route based environmental learning. Although spatial theory suggests that map based (survey) knowledge should be more effective, recent research shows some contrary results. In this paper we...

It is only in the last few decades that geographers have become aware of their special skills and knowledge systems for understanding space in domains other than objective physical reality. As this awareness has grown, however, it has become more and more obvious that spatial knowledge is much...

Travel behavior entails several interrelated decisions made by people, as well as the execution of routines not preceded by deliberate decisions. Furthermore, travel decisions are dependent on choices to participate in activities. A conceptual framework is proposed as the basis of a...

Our purpose is to explore the travel behavior of blind or vision impaired people, focusing in particular on travel by bus. We differentiate the sample depending on the availability of a household car. We examine perceptions of and attitudes toward existing transit and various transit...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether people in general understand elementary spatial concepts, and to examine whether or not naive spatial knowledge includes the ability to understand important spatial primitives that are built into geographic theory, spatial databases and geographic...

Spatial cognitive abilities play an important role in the use of GIS, although they have yet to be examined in a controlled experimental setting. This study aimed to develop an experimental design which measures spatial cognitive abilities in the use of GIS, specifically the map overlay...

This article reports on a survey of the use of buses in Santa Barbara, California, by 55 persons who are visually impaired (including those who are blind and those who have low vision). Findings on users’ frustrations, potential use of technological aids for travel, and perceptions of and...