National Centre for the Elimination of Architectural and Transportation Barriers

National Centre for the Elimination of Architectural and Partially-Sighted persons is designed to fulfil the following services:

• Collecting and provision of both domestic and international informationon environment adaptations and access that would enable the blind to moveindependently;
• organizing a network of environment access advisers for designers, architects, investors and urban planning/building administration;
• promoting public awareness by means of various functions, events and presentations;
• localizing manufacturers and initiating the production of relevant materials and equipment;
• formulating and enforcing relevant proposals for the legislature. This activity is conducted in close co-ordination with the National Commission for the Disabled.

• Construction and related laws provide for mandatory blindness-related access adaptations of specific types of  man-made constructions;
• Large-scale implementation of acoustic traffic lights all over the country;
• remotely controlled sound beacons installed at various locations (underground system entrances, escalators, railway station platforms, public buildings, banks, libraries for the blind, etc.;
• remotely controlled public transport identifiers that can tell a blinduser the number of an incoming tram or bus and its destination;
• guiding lines and strips in the paving of walkways (pavements, train and underground platforms, etc.).

Guidelines
for Creating Conditions to Safe Independent Travel of Blind and Visually Impaired Persons
Part 3, Realised Adaptations and Constuctions, First Edition, November 1999

Methodik Anemrkung
Zum formung der Bedingungen für selbständigen und ungefährdeten Bewegung der blinden und schwersehigen Leuten
3. Teil, Realisierte Instandsetzungen und Bauten, Erste Edition, November 1999