Tactile Traffic Maps Could Help Blind Pedestrians Navigate
From: Scientific American - 07/11/2017
By: Andrea Marks

Tactile maps could help blind pedestrians cross increasingly complex
intersections

Over the past summer designers at Touch Graphics, a company that makes
navigation technology that incorporates information from several senses, have
been working with New York's Department of Transportation to test tactile
maps—diagrams with three-dimensional features and braille text—at a busy
intersection near a resource center for blind people. The project is part of
the city's initiative to eliminate pedestrian traffic fatalities. If the
trial is successful, these maps could be installed at all New York's 13,000
traffic lights, according to Touch Graphics president Steven Landau.

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