TRAFFIC LIGHT POLE DIRECTIONAL DEVICE FOF BLIND PERSONS
When blind persons (BP in further text), approach to street crossroads with trafffic lights, they usually face with issue, how to detect WHICH beep sound is for WHICH direction? Beep sound is the same for both directions, although there are some tries to make 2 different beeps, they are not connected to walk direction at all.
In some cities in US, beeps are connected with north-south and east-wast directions of streets, but that is very specific situation and can not be applied to the rest of the world.
Egz. if you want to go “left” or “forward”, and you hear the beep sound, you do not know which direction is safe to go.
BUT, if we could have some object applied to traffic
light pillar, which should be connected with beeper sounds, in the therms of connection of beeps and
pattern, than we could solve this issue.
It should be like following:
DIRECTION A > LONG BEEPS, Sparsely pattern
DIRECTION B > SHORT BEEPS, Densely pattern
Blind persons could differentiate the directions by simple touching the rings which hold the patterns. Every pattern should be facing the different direction, connected with its belonging beep sound.
If you decide to use this in your country, I would be happy if you would make some donation to me.
THANKS!
Author: Zdravko Barisic, M. Arch
trideval@yahoo.com
trideval.blogspot.com
