Giving the 'Right' Route Directions: The Requirements for Pedestrian Navigation Systems

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 419-438

  Schroder, Catherine J ^a   Mackaness, William A ^a   Gittings, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR-NAVIGATION SYSTEM; DIFFERENT CLASS; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMOBILE; GIS; NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN; URBAN AREA; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 79958274712     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2011.01266.x     Document Type: Article

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