{"title":"TRANSPORTATION NOISE AND ITS EFFECT ON BLIND AND VISUALLY-HANDICAPPED TRAVELLERS","authors":"A. Mckenzie","doi":"10.25144/18722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25144/18722","url":null,"abstract":"Blind travellers rely on their sense of hearing to find their way and to tell what is happening around them. They must keep their ears finely attuned for audible cues which sighted people would ignore: indeed that sighted people may not even be aware of. This means that mechanically-generated noise can cause disturbance and even distress to blind travellers. This paper discusses some of the issues. For the covering abstract see IRRD E101083.","PeriodicalId":518507,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Transportation Noise 1999","volume":"17 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140531525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}