Visually Impaired

Man with visual impairment boarding public bus

New App Helps People With Visual Impairments Navigate Transit

The Waymap app offers precise instructions to give blind pedestrians more options for safe travel.

May 25, 2022 - Reuters

Americans With Disabilities Act

Google Doodle Commemorates Those Bumps on the Edge of the Transit Platform

Today's Google Doodle celebrates an important component of accessibility and mobility for the visually impaired.

March 18, 2019 - Google

Houston Metro's Beacons Serve Visually-Impaired Population

A system of beacons will send signals to cell phones in Houston to help bus riders find stops and navigate public transit safely.

June 3, 2018 - Houston Chronicle

Bus Stop

New Transit Tech Aimed at Blind Bus Riders

Connecthings, a transit app for the blind, is undergoing a trial that will connect its information to the popular wayfinding App BlindSquare in an Austin trial.

May 4, 2018 - Curbed

FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.

Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold

The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.

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