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This time-lapse video shows a typical evening commute November 16, 2011 between 4-6pm.


RESEARCH

This research and development are activities of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation (RERC-APT). The RERC-APT is funded by grant number H133E080019 from the United States Department of Education through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Additional support was provided by Traffic21 at Carnegie Mellon University, a program developed with the support of the Hillman Foundation.

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PUBLICATIONS

Daisy Yoo, John Zimmerman, Aaron Steinfeld, and Anthony Tomasic. 2010. Understanding the space for co-design in riders' interactions with a transit service. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1797-1806. DOI=10.1145/1753326.1753596

John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic, Charles Garrod, Daisy Yoo, Chaya Hiruncharoenvate, Rafae Aziz, Nikhil Ravi Thiruvengadam, Yun Huang, and Aaron Steinfeld. 2011. Field trial of Tiramisu: crowd-sourcing bus arrival times to spur co-design. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1677-1686. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979187

PROJECT MEMBERS

Faculty

Students

Daniel Ringwalt
Andrew Smith
Jian Li
Yue Xing
Steve Gardiner
Agnes Won
Shree Lakshmi Rao

Former Members

Chaya Hiruncharoenvate
William Goodale
Allison Tran
Yufei An
Xinpan Xiao
Taylor Raack
Piyush Kumar
Daisy Jiseon Yoo
Nikhil Thiruvengadam
Stephanie Mahalchick
Jonathan Park
Hanzhang Hu
Tim Andrianoff
Rafae Aziz
Sun Young Park
Lauren Von Dehsen
Ellen Ayoob

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This research and development are activities of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation (RERC-APT). The RERC-APT is funded by grant number H133E080019 from the United States Department of Education through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Additional support was provided by Traffic21 at Carnegie Mellon University, a program developed with the support of the Hillman Foundation; a University Transportation Center grant (DTRT12-G-UTC11) from the US Department of Transportation; and a US Department of Transportation SBIR Phase I grant (DTRT57-12-C-10039).

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