Services: Accessibility Services in Transport - Transport Systems Consultancy

Analysis and Accessibility plans in Transport

For the compilation of a study on the transport of a municipality, situations or barriers are located and resolved that any person could encounter during a hypothetical journey in a given region. A study is also carried out of the situation in relation to reserved parking spaces for people with problems of reduced mobility in the municipality.

The most recent transport accessibility plans carried out are: Igualada, Matanza de Acentejo, Sant Pere de Ribes and reports on solutions regarding public transport for ATM and EMT.

The most recent transport accessibility plans carried out are: Igualada, Matanza de Acentejo, Sant Pere de Ribes and reports on solutions regarding public transport for ATM and EMT

Advice on mobile material and transport installations in public and private companies

If consists in the compilation of an accessibility report on transport where a real situation is analysed, carrying out the corresponding improvement proposals and posterior conclusions.

Example:
Renfe Mataró railway station: a revision of accessibility at the station - Mataró for commuter rail.

Advice on Accessibility in the field of Management of Private and Public Transport

Examples of accessibility in transport:
An audit of the FGC stations: A revision is carried our of the FGC network, ensuring the carrying out of current accessibility legislation and of the construction criteria of the company itself.

Accessibility of Transport Elements: Ergonomic and usability studies are carried out of the elements that are located in the infrastructures of public and private transport so as to improve their use, security and level of comfort when the user interacts with them.

Accessibility of Transport Elements

Advice on Signalling, Information and Ticket Sales

Example:
EMT System of pre-advice for upcoming stop: the objective of the study is to find a technical solution for the information within the bus, that be applied to operating companies that presently offer services in the area in the company - Metropolitana del Transporte.

Usability analysis

Example:
MAE: technical advice on the adaptation of a rail ticket vending machine from the Catalan rail network - Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat de Cataluña. A voice navigation system was developed to aid people with disabilities when interacting with the machine.

Example: MAE: technical advice on the adaptation of a rail ticket vending machine from the Catalan rail network

Studies of regular and special transport territorial needs:

Example:
Study on specially adapted public transport with the Barcelona metropolitan area: the aim of the project would consist in the realisation of the proposals to create a metropolitan public transport service for people with reduced mobility, determining the service conditions, a prevision of its costs and proposals for its management and use.

Advice on the compilation of a Specification Manual

Example:
Design revision of the new underground line 9 station: the aim of the study was to analyse the station design of the 4t stretch of the Underground L9 (Sagrera Meridiana – Can Zam / Gorg) just as they appear in the construction project by GISA and carried out by AUDING. For each and every shortfall as well as for improvement points, an alternative solution was proposed to ensure a comfortable and safe interaction for the user, whether he or she is a traveller or staff member of the operating company.

Project Control

Example:
Control of the development and the construction of the new train on wheels for the transport of visitors to Control del la Abadía de Montserrat.

Control of the development and the construction of the new train on wheels for the transport of visitors to Control del la Abadía de Montserrat.

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