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Using Ambient Intelligence to Improve Public Transport Accessibility

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This paper described how ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence can be applied in order to make more accessible the public road transport for people with special needs. The main goal of the proposed system is to assist to this kind of people during the trips. This system is autonomous and does not affect the common operations carried out in the public transport infrastructure; it provides useful data obtained transparently, using different sensors installed in the infrastructure.

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  1. Institute for Cybernetic Science and Technology, Department of Informatics and Systems, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    Carmelo R. García, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia, Teresa Cristóbal, Gabino Padrón, Ricardo Pérez & Francisco Alayón

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  1. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla Ly Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Ramón Hervás

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, 446-701, Yongin-si, Gyeongi-do, Korea

    Sungyoung Lee

  3. Computer Science Research Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Shore Road, BT37 0QB, Newtownabbey, UK

    Chris Nugent

  4. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Bravo

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García, C.R., Quesada-Arencibia, A., Cristóbal, T., Padrón, G., Pérez, R., Alayón, F. (2014). Using Ambient Intelligence to Improve Public Transport Accessibility. In: Hervás, R., Lee, S., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services. UCAmI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8867. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_4

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