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NY City and its 3rd generation of accessible pedestrian system: aBeacon business case and experience
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Accessibility expert ISO, AFNOR International Speaker on accessibility : DOT NYC, Sign Design Society, Russia, Middle-East President of national accessibility union that gather about 70 companies & associations
Sylvain DENONCIN
aBeacon The new generation of Accessible Pedestrian Signals
A little bit of history
London, 1868: gas pedestrian signals
Cleveland, 1914: first electrical, with sound
Then from the 70s, birds landed everywhere in the US from Japan , with the permanent Cuckoo (N-S) Chirps (E-W)
Can help but : 1. Weak content 2. Confusion 3. Silent red 4. Noise pollution
Then APS pushed buttons
Better but: 1. Need to find it or to add locator tone 2. Hygiene issues/Covid 19 3. Temperature issues 4. Weak content 5. Difficult to keep direction to reach the other side of the street 6. Noise pollution
What About France ? ➢ User testing between 1993 and 2004 based on remote activation ➢ Only remote control activation ➢ 2004 : standardization ➢ 2006 : mandatory on new installations ➢ Directly integrated into the pedestrian ➢ 2021 : 250.000 APS installed
Good but: ➢ Radiofrequency remote control can activate all APS around ➢ Confusion is possible between 2 APS if they are too close ➢ No sound corridor ➢ Difficult to apply in other countries (868 MHz frequency – large street volume needed) ➢ No monitoring for cities
That’s why we developped aBeacon The 3rd generation of APS
Winner of the Call For Innovation of the DOT(*) of New York City
BLUEEO
ONLINE
SETTINGS TAB
BLUETOOTH REMOTE CONTROL
BACKOFFICE
MYMOVEO APP
EXISTING PUSHED BUTTONS
• works with your headphones = no need to have your phone in hand = no need to
Bip + vibratio n
Clic Once O
Clic To Choose O
29 volunteers , 3 days
(25th Nov, 7th Dec, 15th Dec 2019) 5mn briefing for the remote control then user testing
Next step : End of April 2022 User testing with Iphone app MyMOVEO & new remote control
Thank You! Sylvain DENONCIN CEO - sylvain@okeenea.com