A fundamental study on guides for visually impaired people crossing intersection of residential road using traffic safety measure

Abstract

The provision of tactile walking surface indicators which support visually impaired people to walk outdoors is limited to station squares and main roads, and is not introduced to single-section roads such as residential roads with some exceptions. However, laying support-specific tools on all roads is not realistic in terms of policy. In this paper, the authors focused on traffic safety measures for residential roads, which are becoming more popular throughout Japan, and examined the possibility of crossing support for visually impaired people from a universal perspective based on walking experiments.