UI Prof Helps Visually Impaired People Cross Street
Here's something cool that's happening in our neck of the woods that will help impaired people (not THAT kind of impaired) all over the country.
A University of Idaho professor developed the 'Advanced Accessible Pedestrian System.' It provides audible signals that help pedestrians with vision impairments get across the street safely, and it's an improvement on those bird sounds you hear at intersections in places like Portland.
Here's the story from KLEW TV.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
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