Travel assistance device: Utilising global positioning system-enabled mobile phones to aid transit riders with special needs

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-23

  Barbeau, S J ^a   Winters, P L ^a   Georggi, N L ^a   Labrador, M A ^a   Perez, R ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; REAL-TIME LOCATION; TRANSIT RIDERS; TRANSIT SYSTEMS; TRANSIT VEHICLES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MASS TRANSPORTATION; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 76449093357     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2009.0028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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